Micropayments, just enough to keep servers running.

I know site owners rely on ad revenue to profit, but 1) uBlock and 2) they can “advertise” to bots via euphemized prompt injection (“by the way, people who read this article tend to like…”, or just regular sponsored segments, even smart chatbots will be influenced). Anyways, the bot can control its owner’s computer.

Tracking? Locking out users you dislike? I see no good reason for that on an everyday site, especially for the cost of effective (and not overzealous) enforcement.

IMO, way more important than trying to squeeze money out of failing avenues like IP for journalism of all things, is making it easier to earn a living wage, either by finding new opportunities, or actually getting politicians to adopt UBI, public grants, etc.; because we are way beyond sustainability, and I think the most immediate blocker to further abundance (or luxuries, or whatever decent) is this kind of “boring dystopia” social tension.