While I like those options, they are definitely not for everyone.
Those problems are collective, protecting the privacy of 1% of the population is as good as protecting nobody.
You're sharing a correct sentiment, but completely missing the point.
Your artistic work has value and you should be in the condition of making art while taking care of yourself economically. This is definitively true.
Don't assume the only possible way to achieve that is to gatekeep your otherway easily replicable art (which is sad and completely agains art's purpose if you want my opinion). It may be the most viable way now, but it's not the only one (and it's not working great, as your example underline).
It's the same for tipping colture, if you want a parallel situation to look from outside. Is absolutely criminal that full-time worker has to rely on a mandatory charity donation in order to survive and we should all be against that.
The worker could say "I need the tips couse I can't afford live without it, so if you are against tipping you are hurting me", which is the same things you are saying about yourself.
There are plenty of way to have an ad free experience and you can probably support creators 1000x more if you give your money's subscription to them through patron or similar.
They're bereft of sense if you consider the goal of a good user experience.
If you set the goal as to have your user addicted and stay on the platform as long as possible, they're perfectly logical decision.
Thank you, this is what I was worrying about.
As for the "why", even if my server is quite stable, a shutdown may be necessary and sometimes slowdowns with pi-hole happened. Some redundancy would have been better.
La pirateria non è furto, è violazione di copyright. Suggerirei di fare attenzione a questa falsa equivalenza, perchè si porta dietro tante cose.