There are fiat denominated gift cards you can buy with XMR.

Well, for the absolute best privacy and open source, you’d want Monero. But this wouldn’t let you do cards, so that wouldn’t work for you. You might be able to buy prepaid cards, but I’m not totally sure.

What seems crazy to me is how many people they managed to convince that they were private when they most definitely are not.

Exactly. I can’t really stand chapters that are 8 to 10 minutes because I have to turn pages so frequently that it becomes really annoying.

Good for them. The less people who vote, the easier it is to claim correctly that the supposed rulers are illegitimate.

I’m assuming it takes the average reading speed in order to make a guess, and I actually find that I like them, especially in fan fiction stories. That way, I know how long the chapter is, because I’m blind, so I use a screen reader, so I prefer somewhat longer chapters, because I don’t have to constantly switch pages as often with longer pages.

That might be kind of difficult. You might try something like hodlhodl or offer to buy something on xmrbazaar

Oh, that’s annoying. I hadn’t actually tried it myself. I had only heard about it.

I think somebody forked it and is calling it IronFox. So you might want to take a look and see if that’s correct.