The problem I had with Flattr is that not enough sites used it. I wound up putting the same money into Readability, which earmarked a chunk of change based on t

The problem I had with Flattr is that not enough sites used it. I wound up putting the same money into Readability, which earmarked a chunk of change based on the domains of the sites I read that month. The catch is they had few sites sign up to claim that cash (among other reasons, authors had issues with the terms) and they caught a lot of flak for making money on the backs of others. I don't see a winning hand here. I would happily pay $X/month ($20? $30?) to strip ads from the whole web if money got to the creators. I don't want to pay $Y/month to each site I visit. My solution for most sites so far is to subscribe to the RSS feeds. At least the ads at the bottom of a feedburner'd feed aren't so bad, and I can sync the contents to my phone readily.