> A standard "tip" button on the browser may be an excellent feature. But that's my point entirely: this requires an action, a decision on the part of the user

> A standard "tip" button on the browser may be an excellent feature. But that's my point entirely: this requires an action, a decision on the part of the user, to press it. For the most part, I expect that people will nearly unconsciously, instinctively avoid pressing it. Part of this will be to avoid the "decision cost", part of it is the huge extra psychological weight imposed on actions that are (perceived as) free vs. non-free. (cf. app store free vs IAP mechanics, etc.) The very fact that the button requires an explicit user action and "costs something" dooms it. This problem isn't a technological one. It's not "add button". It's "devise and bootstrap a distributed culture that agrees with human psychology and that aligns user and producer needs better than what we have today (i.e. ads, subscriptions, etc.)"