So people are mostly talking about ads in general or hypocrisy, but I do think the author's point has some merit here. Frictionless payments and eliminating tra

So people are mostly talking about ads in general or hypocrisy, but I do think the author's point has some merit here. Frictionless payments and eliminating transaction overhead is a real benefit of ads, and I think one way to reduce reliance on ads would be to explore other avenues of addressing this problem. Like, riffing: you could maybe have some kind of automatic implicit patreon type thing. You sign up for "auto-patreon" and put $5/month in your account, you allow any site to charge up to $.10 a day, then you just browse the internet and sites will automatically charge you for usage.