&gt;It would be better to have a functioning micro-payments system.<p>There&#x27;s some things that seem inevitable to me. True flat-rate music streaming services was one of those things and we&#x27;re pretty much there. Moving away from ad-supported websites to a convenient subscription model is the other.<p>I don&#x27;t think the war against AdBlock can be won. How do you disable a software that simply hides content? Force users to click the ads? Put them into more and more annoying places? We already know the endgame of that and it&#x27;s shady pop-up orgies. I doubt the New York Times wants to be associated with that. But I also won&#x27;t pay $10 for every single website I might visit a month (some, maybe, for only an article or two in a link).<p>What we need is a common subscription flat-rate that fairly splits revenue between websites you actually visit. Not sure about the privacy concerns but at least here, the user data wouldn&#x27;t have to be used for advertising.