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If only some Big Bank would create a secure micropayment experiment, we could experimentally determine whether that could supplant the tracking&ads regime. (At
by 8bitsrule 8y ago
If only some Big Bank would create a secure micropayment experiment, we could experimentally determine whether that could supplant the tracking&ads regime. (At least, for those users that despise ads ... targeted or not.)
If the potential rewards for hackers could be kept minimal, it'd not attract interest.
The NYTimes has kept their site reasonable, but I don't want to subscribe. I like the idea of paying per-item, not bulk. That lets users encourage the kind of content (and authors) they want to see more of, while generating revenue for the content that Big Papers must provide (regardless of popular interest).
WHY this topic is always off-the-radar mystifies me.
- diggernet 8y agoI had hopes for Millicent back around the turn of the century (man I sound old), and my employer at the time had me working on setting it up as a payment system for mp3 downloads. But it just kind of vanished. It's astonishing that all these years later there is still no widely used fractional-cent micropayment system.