An interesting if rather long read. However I’m not sure if your solutions of voluntary donations and cryptocurincies have viability. Voluntary donations have high friction to get a user to start donating (You don’t want to donate to a site you only visit twice and who knows if you will visit the site in the future). Cryptocurincies are unproven at this point.
You also don’t mention how targeted advertising is critical to many small business. If you have niche or specalized product it can be very difficult to find people that want to buy it, you are limited to only places where those people are in high concentrations, it is quite reasonable to expect that the elimination of targeted advertising would quietly erase these business as they are no longer able to find their consumers. Diffrent payment models don’t address this.
It is unfortunate that it is not more famous. I did mention that there are sites that depends on targeted advertising that would be affected in the final version of the essay, though there is not much detail about it. Feel free to come up with other solutions BTW. I have a Google Group you can join: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-mozilla-probl...
You also don’t mention how targeted advertising is critical to many small business. If you have niche or specalized product it can be very difficult to find people that want to buy it, you are limited to only places where those people are in high concentrations, it is quite reasonable to expect that the elimination of targeted advertising would quietly erase these business as they are no longer able to find their consumers. Diffrent payment models don’t address this.