Prescient. I wish for their success because my eyeballs sell for $0.01 per view in ad subsidy, and I would rather directly pay for the subsidy myself and skip t

Prescient. I wish for their success because my eyeballs sell for $0.01 per view in ad subsidy, and I would rather directly pay for the subsidy myself and skip the ads. But reflecting on the twenty years since this was written, I'd say he was on the money. Sidebar, at $0.50 per view it definitely would not work, but I figure at $0.01 a typical user would run up a tab of about $2-5/mo, which is small enough that unpredictability is not a big deal.