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https://contributor.google.com https://contributor.google.com vs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 vs flattr vs Apple of course! The only acceptable UX for micropayments is a central or seamless service, from the user's perspective. Apple could block out ads and insert their own subscription center to pay for content. Google, Facebook will probably do the same. And this will lead to advanced users not being able to control what content they pay for and regular users being indifferent. The main problem the web and humanity should aim for is encouraging good content and discouraging the overflow of crap the web is now. I think these schemes on their own will merely redistribute money by taking out the unnecessary player, the advertisers. The content will still remain clickbait and eyeball focused. But it's a step in the right direction as eventually, some combination of tech could achieve a positive result for human kind, and that combination requires micropayments in place of ads.