To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments
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You just need to be careful that the system you set up doesn't incentivise things like getting end user's PCs to upload masses of data to some random server in Russia so that bad actors can collect the data delivery fees. We don't need newer, even more profitable, reasons for scammers and virus writers to ply their trade.
That's always a risk so expect malware that will do this. If there is a "white list" only payment setting then no site gets money unless you explicitly approve it in your account, as long as that can't be manipulated by third parties as well.
Systems that will time-gate your payments so that it's not per click or per visit while you receive notifications of each site you are sending money to can also help reduce the risk.
Nothing is risk free though.