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I think we really, really need cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Or just something where I could pay, say 10 Euro per year, and every website that participate
by danieldk 11y ago
I think we really, really need cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.
Or just something where I could pay, say 10 Euro per year, and every website that participates gets a fraction to my number of visits or reading time.
As far as I understand, Google is trying to do this. But it does not provide a 'no ads' guarantee and there are other ad networks with even more obnoxious ads.
- teddyh 11y agoYou mean something like Flattr?
- ac29 11y ago> Or just something where I could pay, say 10 Euro per year, and every website that participates gets a fraction to my number of visits or reading time. The problem with this is you must allow a third party to track every page visit and/or page view time, which is unacceptable to many people that use ad blockers. If you are OK with persistent, pervasive tracking, I think this is probably the best solution.
- thesteamboat 11y agoIgnoring the page view time bit, couldn't this (theoretically, I have a hard time imagining it practically) just be handled invisibly by the ISP that already knows every request you make?
- jessaustin 11y agoYou've described the situation pretty accurately here I think. I wonder, though. What if a browser extension generated tokens and stuck them in headers, and then sites sent those tokens on to the central authority after some appropriate transformation? It seems possible to set it up so the central authority would have enough information to remunerate sites without having enough information to know what users are doing.