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> You can do that now You really can't. There are no browsers I know of (besides brave) that make automated payments to content creators based on how much I vi

by imron 9y ago

> You can do that now You really can't. There are no browsers I know of (besides brave) that make automated payments to content creators based on how much I visit their site. Not to mention I don't want a dozen different subscriptions to a dozen different services. And I don't want a subscription to the nytimes the washington post or the wsj, because I barely read those sites (I'm not from the US so much of their content is not that relevant to me) but I might be happy to pay $0.10 for article once in a blue moon that I do find interesting on those sites - but there's no way to do that. I do put my money where my mouth is and I do support people I think make valuable content, but current systems are not scalable to all the content I currently read on the web. Things like what Brave is doing solve that problem.

DoreenMichele 9y ago
I doubt Brave will ever be widely adopted from both sides. You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that. And I really, really don't believe we will ever have the kind of solution you say you would support. It would require everyone to have the same browser. It would require everyone to pay into that system. It would require all content producers to have an account with that same central entity to get their share. I think Basic Income is less far fetched and I have been quite vocal about how crazy I think that is.
- imron 9y ago
  > You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that No I'm not. I already support content creators who create things that are valuable and that I enjoy. Unfortunately, current payment methods mean that this value has to cross a relatively high threshold before payment is feasible and so creators are often left with nothing. And yes, $1 is a high threshold - especially for something like a blog post. There aren't many articles on the web that I'd pay $1 to read. There are however many articles on the web I'd pay $0.02 to read - but that option isn't available. I'm not going to manually spend my time sending sites a dollar here and a dollar there. If however my browser can automate micropayments based on site usage and I can opt in for how much I'm prepared to pay per month in total, then that is something I'd pay for. > It would require everyone to have the same browser. No it wouldn't, it would just require all browsers to standardize on a given system. There is no technical reason other browsers couldn't implement automated payments using the Basic Attention Token (or something similar).

by imron 9y ago

DoreenMichele 9y ago

I doubt Brave will ever be widely adopted from both sides. You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that. And I really, really don't believe we will ever have the kind of solution you say you would support. It would require everyone to have the same browser. It would require everyone to pay into that system. It would require all content producers to have an account with that same central entity to get their share. I think Basic Income is less far fetched and I have been quite vocal about how crazy I think that is.

imron 9y ago
> You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that No I'm not. I already support content creators who create things that are valuable and that I enjoy. Unfortunately, current payment methods mean that this value has to cross a relatively high threshold before payment is feasible and so creators are often left with nothing. And yes, $1 is a high threshold - especially for something like a blog post. There aren't many articles on the web that I'd pay $1 to read. There are however many articles on the web I'd pay $0.02 to read - but that option isn't available. I'm not going to manually spend my time sending sites a dollar here and a dollar there. If however my browser can automate micropayments based on site usage and I can opt in for how much I'm prepared to pay per month in total, then that is something I'd pay for. > It would require everyone to have the same browser. No it wouldn't, it would just require all browsers to standardize on a given system. There is no technical reason other browsers couldn't implement automated payments using the Basic Attention Token (or something similar).