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DD-WRT has had this for a while now.

http://blog.anchorfree.com/news-events/ad-supported-wi-fi-network-launches/

"Consumers on an AnchorFree hotspot are presented with a display ad that remains at the top of the screen with every Web site they visit, and those ads can be contextually matched to the content on each page, according to Mark Smith, EVP strategy and product development for AnchorFree."

Need to balance cheap-as-hell with this-might-get-me-arrested? Activists do it all the time. Here's a snip from an internal manual:

Use a "Virtual Private Network" service to avoid some snooping and beat censorship. This is a lightweight program running on your computer that encrypts all your online activity locally. In effect, it appears as though you are surfing from somewhere else... Until then you can use a free VPN called "Hotspot Shield", which is supported by ads. This is annoying, so we recommend a Firefox plug-in called AdBlockPlus, which blocks the ads. HotSpot Shield also gives you a random IP address, which will defeat most local censorship.

        * Download HotSpot Shield by AnchorFree: http://www.anchorfree.com/ Hotspot Shield
        * AdBlockPlus ( a plug-in for Firefox browser ) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Just get anchorfree's Hotspot shield. It's usually too slow for streaming video, but it's fast enough for streaming audio, and costs nothing.

Try Hotspot Shield. Works for me.

The mark of a shitty site like that one is that nowhere on it could I find anything resembling an accurate explanation of what it is and how it works. My thought on that was "and they expect me to want to download and install it?" So then I tried their "News" section and found that some of the links to "articles" just take you to a username/password that wants you to have a subscription to Advertising Age for the privilege of viewing their fine article/advertisement. Finally after perusing several links, I found out that your Hotspot Shield is just a VPN tool. If it's anything more than that, they seem to want to keep it a secret. I should have known because of how much that site looked like those annoying link farms you sometimes get if you slightly misspell the domain name of a legitimate site. Thanks but no thanks.

The above link is nothing but spam. Maybe you didn't intend it as such, and I respect that, but that's all it is to me. If it does serve a useful purpose, it's none that can't be accomplished using open source tools, or on Windows, tools that clearly state what they do and how they do it before you download and install them.

Try Hotspot Shield. Works for me.

Sadly despite my living in the 51st state it is also not available here. Although I'm not going to let that stop me: http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/