ca. 2003, I'm getting rid of my tv-card which has been free until now, or else I have to pay a fee...
ca. 2010, They've got a website now, if you have a computer or phone, you gotta pay the fee...
great... now I have to pay the fee because I have a github... or what
ca. 2015, you have to pay it anyway, with no exemptions
ca. 2020, they start randomly sending out delay penalties, even if you are late by days, without ever notifying you of the due dates
ca. 2022, they sneakily shift the 3-months fee forward, first you can pay it at the end of the period, then in the middle month, then soon at the beginning
meanwhile, the programming gets worse and worse every year. Then they get surprised if people vote for parties which promise to abolish it.
If you don't want people who don't care for TV or Radio (they do exist) to vote for AfD then you shouldn't have introduced a Rundfunkbeitrag that's very unpopular with many more. Scandals about money being badly spent just adds to the distrust and lack of interest people have in ARD, ZDF etc.
I didn't mind the old system to finance ARD/ZDF/... as I don't care about TV or radio and choose not to have either, but the new system is just not fair.
The French were smart enough to change their funding to be drawn from the general state budget: Less effort and no more grumpy people like me.
Well, they aren't actually. Lay off the hyperbole.