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The "ideals" [...] "of making the web a cleaner place" by blocking ads except for advertisers who paid the blocker is, very dirty.

What seems to happen here is the "pay-for-everything-you-will-access" paradigm, and it is frightening.

No, do not want! Flattr's main problem is already that it's far too easy to game, and if you give in and click on everything, you dilute your contribution to the things you actually care about. Replacing the ad with a flattr button is good - in fact it's great! but auto-clicking that for you - no! Let's not replicate the clickbait economy.