A pirate site explores a new way of paying for the internet that doesn't involve ads

To say that advertising as the main business model of the internet is in a crisis would be an understatement. For a start, there is the fact that Google and Facebook between them suck up most of the revenue from digital advertising. They accounted for 99% of revenue growth in digital advertising in the US in 2016 and took 77% of all advertising spending in that same year.Then there is the growth of ad blockers whose use grew 30% also in 2016. Worse still, attempts to simply deny access to users