I want to see something that works similar to (the way they claim) YouTube premium works.

Get a bunch of these journalism sites together and use a single sign on that catches what I actually view and pays out my single $5-10/month rate to the sites that I visit based on proportionality.

I realize that a privacy-focused community like this isn’t going to love the idea of some company tracking all the news/journalism sites they visit, but it really does seem (to me) like the best way to balance the fact that these journalists deserve to get paid and also the fact that I’m not going to give even $2/month to 20+ different sites, just because I refuse to keep track of all of those.

I mean I guess there’s always things like Patreon if those sites want to offer a like, $1-2 tier for full access, but they don’t because they think their stuff is worth more.

There’s no subscription, it uses servers because otherwise cheating is 100 times easier.