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It would be great to decentralize what is already done by Youtube Red and Spotify. I'm honestly surprised that something like that doesn't already exist. Allo

It would be great to decentralize what is already done by Youtube Red and Spotify. I'm honestly surprised that something like that doesn't already exist. Allow sites to register against your payment service and then it keeps track of your visits and at the end of the month, shows you a report and distributes funds. Edit: another cool facet to this idea would be that you don't have to hound end users to join, the content providers that sign up will do that for you :) Edit round 2: looks like brave.com already does exactly this.

cmdrfred 10y ago
I'd like to see something that seamlessly ties a voting system (thumbs up/thumbs down) with a payment system and a social media aspect. Charge a dollar per thumbs up on a video, if a video has lots of thumbs ups than that means lots of people paid to say "this content is good" increasing the likelihood that it is actually good. All of the money can go to the content creator and the aggregator can make it's money with advertising.
- pdelbarba 10y ago
  That would be interesting. I like the idea of keeping a fixed monthly amount so you don't have to worry about upvoting things often, you just do what you always have done, and your preferences support creators accordingly.
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  It would also help with downvote-brigading if it cost something to vote it down.
  - c_prompt 10y ago
    One other self-serving post: that's the way valME.io works. [1] [1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost-1-karma-to-upvote-but-2-to-downvote https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost...
- c_prompt 10y ago
  Self-serving plug: I created valME.io to do exactly this. [1] It uses Bitcoin. [2] YoursNetwork also has a working prototype. [3] [1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-valme-io-what-were-you-thinking/ https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-v... [2] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/ https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/ [3] https://stories.yours.org https://stories.yours.org
Larrikin 10y ago
Brave looks great, except it seems weird to make it a full fledged browser instead of simply a plugin
- pdelbarba 10y ago
  Yea, after further inspection it appears to be higher friction than it needs to be
- walterbell 10y ago
  Are browser plugins possible on mobile devices?
  - dublinben 10y ago
    Firefox for Android allows many of the same addons as the desktop browser, such as uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, or Self-Destructing Cookies.
- nikcub 10y ago
  There is room in the market for another browser. One that is as good as Chrome but unencumbered by the conflicts of the advertising business.
  - Larrikin 10y ago
    That sounds like Firefox
    - nikcub 10y ago
      Sounds like Firefox with Electolysis finished, all chrome extensions working on all platforms and Chrome devtools ported over. ie. Firefox becoming more like Chrome
      - kuschku 10y ago
        Ignore the dev tools (Chrome's are worse than Firefox), but add hardware video decoding and hardware compositing

cmdrfred 10y ago

I'd like to see something that seamlessly ties a voting system (thumbs up/thumbs down) with a payment system and a social media aspect. Charge a dollar per thumbs up on a video, if a video has lots of thumbs ups than that means lots of people paid to say "this content is good" increasing the likelihood that it is actually good. All of the money can go to the content creator and the aggregator can make it's money with advertising.

pdelbarba 10y ago
That would be interesting. I like the idea of keeping a fixed monthly amount so you don't have to worry about upvoting things often, you just do what you always have done, and your preferences support creators accordingly.
CaptSpify 10y ago
It would also help with downvote-brigading if it cost something to vote it down.
- c_prompt 10y ago
  One other self-serving post: that's the way valME.io works. [1] [1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost-1-karma-to-upvote-but-2-to-downvote https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost...
c_prompt 10y ago
Self-serving plug: I created valME.io to do exactly this. [1] It uses Bitcoin. [2] YoursNetwork also has a working prototype. [3] [1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-valme-io-what-were-you-thinking/ https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-v... [2] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/ https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/ [3] https://stories.yours.org https://stories.yours.org

Larrikin 10y ago

Brave looks great, except it seems weird to make it a full fledged browser instead of simply a plugin

pdelbarba 10y ago
Yea, after further inspection it appears to be higher friction than it needs to be
walterbell 10y ago
Are browser plugins possible on mobile devices?
- dublinben 10y ago
  Firefox for Android allows many of the same addons as the desktop browser, such as uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, or Self-Destructing Cookies.
nikcub 10y ago
There is room in the market for another browser. One that is as good as Chrome but unencumbered by the conflicts of the advertising business.
- Larrikin 10y ago
  That sounds like Firefox
  - nikcub 10y ago
    Sounds like Firefox with Electolysis finished, all chrome extensions working on all platforms and Chrome devtools ported over. ie. Firefox becoming more like Chrome
    - kuschku 10y ago
      Ignore the dev tools (Chrome's are worse than Firefox), but add hardware video decoding and hardware compositing