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Blendle is somewhat similar to what you're talking about, though it's pay per article as opposed to per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle

Things like visa checkout, probably with browser integration would work well. I wonder if mozilla could push forward with it, as I doubt chrome would be okay not getting a slice of the pie from the fees somehow

I used to have a Sunday subscription for the Washington Post. That was pretty affordable and all the newspaper I wanted.