How much am I willing to pay? Nothing. Keep your ads classy and relevant and don't have that shit flood me with pop-ups.I find paywalls ruin the reading experience and I'll literally disregard websites and their content if they try slap me with a paywall. Ask me to pay directly for 40 seconds of my time, article by article? Your dreaming. Adds work fine and I've actually had some tech sites through great add placement actually direct me to useful products I actually wind up buying.

I'd be willing to pay you with a small portion of my attention for your article. It's doubtful most articles are providing some rare insight not freely available elsewhere too. so make use of that attention and slip me some subtle advertising.

Context: I'm poor af. I'll open my wallet for food but the concept of paying for articles online I'll leave that to the maybe 1 in 20 friends who are financially comfortable enough for a luxury like that.