(Warning: the following text is a fictional story. Any resemblance to the dystopian reality is a mere coincidence)
It's 2026. All browsers have a subscription fee because, you know, "it's not free to maintain a browser". I couldn't renew my browser subscription yet, so I can't continue developing my little Vue project, because Vue (alongside with everything else) stopped supporting the former, subscriptionless browsers (those browsers were deemed "piracy tools" by many corporations and international laws). I can't use the web as entertainment either.
To make things worse, I reached the ad viewing quota (due to alleged "revenue loses", ads now have a daily quota, i.e. how many ads you are allowed to watch daily in order to "pay" for the usage of online services; if you're not actively clicking them and buying the advertised product, you soon become ineligible to keep watching them until the next day). So I can't watch dozens of uninterruptible ads anymore in order to keep browsing.
But this is fine! Yeah, that's okay: fortunately, I did afford to pay for my human existence and breath subscription fees this week, so I got some more not-so-fresh oxygen and heartbeats till I can get more ads so, you know, I could finally deliver this project and be paid so I can pay to work so I could keep being paid to pay to work... while I watch those paid ads. After all, you know, it's not free to maintain modern existence...