NewsBlur now has referrals. Share your link, your friend subscribes, you get up to a full year of premium free. No limit on the number of people you refer. Refer enough people and you literally never pay again.
You can also now gift a NewsBlur subscription to that friend who's still reading news via algorithm. Pick a tier, get a link, send it their way. If they don't redeem it in 90 days you get auto-refunded, but let's be honest, once they try it they're not going back.