Why shamed: They claim, "Your privacy is critically important to us." While using Stripe as their only payment method. Stripe, according to their privacy policy collects and uses all this data: https://your.ls/xmeaa

404media says, "We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information." While only offering Stripe to pay for their services, 404Media fails at this promise—the US government and 1000s of corporations can see exactly who pays for a 404Media subscription—what they look like, what else they purchase, when they purchase it, where they live. This is totally unnecessary information to collect just to read a newspaper.