Thanks for trying to fix the problem and for sharing your experience. Are you convinced that it just couldn’t work?

No, but this is user behavior learned over decades and generations. At least with physical media, like newspapers and books, the tangible transfer is relatively easy to value, but digital started free and adblocking only continues to reinforce it. Add in the infinite supply, intangible nature, and 0-cost copying and it's hard to close that Pandora's box.

Changing behavior is possible but will require major cooperation and money to do so, at the scale of both Facebook and Google working together to change things. Maybe that'll happen someday but I just don't see it.