> Ars Technica adding many "premium features" as a bundle to justify the subscription fee.
Personally I think this is fine. If paying for their content encouages them to maintain a quality RSS feed and not track you that seems like a reasonable exchange.
I can imagine a subscription service where you could pay to access a bunch of RSS feeds.
The fundamental problem is that people are used to not paying for content. But one of the things that has changed over the twenty years that the article talks about is that people are more willing to pay for things on the internet.
Thank you along with everyone for coming back to answer all the questions. A very interesting approach, not something I'd considered but definitely worth trying.