Yes! Exactly! As I understand it, sites don't earn very much from each ad view. So to get substantial income, they need lots of traffic and ad views. And this

Yes! Exactly! As I understand it, sites don't earn very much from each ad view. So to get substantial income, they need lots of traffic and ad views. And this gets implemented through a hugely complex process of real-time data sharing and bidding. It's ~transparent if you have a fast uplink. But if you're using Tor browser, you can watch it play out, all too slowly. So just replace that complex process with a simpler process of identifying the subscription service that the user employs, and adding the page view to their tab. In order to match current income from ads, the cost per page view would likely be very small. Perhaps $0.01-$0.10. And there could be a mechanism for adjusting that cost based on the local cost of living of a given user. Perhaps through a parameter pushed by the subscription service, which it would obtain in some more-or-less anonymous fashion.