Right? This is always the false dichotomy that gets put to us. "Either accept the ads or pay me 5 bucks a month" 5 bucks a month??!?! You were making 5 bucks a

Right? This is always the false dichotomy that gets put to us. "Either accept the ads or pay me 5 bucks a month" 5 bucks a month??!?! You were making 5 bucks a month off JUST ME WITH ADS?!!!! But it's not that at all. It's simply that credit cards are so heinously inefficient and unreliable and costly to manage that they need to charge that amount of money to not lose money on average. Dealing with fraud and charge backs and the cut the banks take and the cost per transaction. It's just how terrible of a payment system credit cards really are. If we were getting charged the actual price of the product, most people would happily pay! Load your browser up with 20 bucks and you'll have unobstructed internet for months. I think this goal is pretty much what Brave is going for, they get a lot of criticism for their implementation here. Of course I'm not shocked, this is a hard problem, and the demand for the solution is irrationally low.