My personal information is not for sale or distribution and I refuse to allow any computations on my computer that enable someone to gather it.
So subscribe to your local newspaper. One of my subscriptions is $25/6 months of Sunday delivery and you get free unlimited online access. That's $4.16/month — below your stated budget.
If more people put their money where their mouths are, then we could break the media of their third-party ad serving addiction.
Why aren't you already using one of the many options?
2. They still track you. See, for instance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202382
3. Prices still too high. I don't a single story on https://www.washingtonpost.com/ that I would pay more than 2cents for.
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So you pay them money and they still need your information. And you need to browse articles through their interface instead of naturally through the actual newspaper website. Actually worse than the status quo.