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I'm wondering if we can't start micropayments today: Create an ad provider which bids together with all the others, but in your name (and you give them some mo
by hyperman1 8y ago
I'm wondering if we can't start micropayments today: Create an ad provider which bids together with all the others, but in your name (and you give them some money).
If you pay enough via that ad provider, it will claim the ad space on that page for you and leave it empty or puts some todolist or whatever you want there. Ask a monthly fee of a euro for computer costs.
As this is the raison d'aitre of this pseudo ad company, all its GDPR troubles are resolved at once. If it gains traction, publishers can use it as a preferred ad provider and resolve their GDPR troubles too.
Only question: Who would want to pay for this. It might prove people prefer ads to micropayments.
- hartator 8y agoOr use an Adblock.
- wild_preference 8y agoUnless we want the internet to continue centralizing into the websites that don't need a business model (like VC funding), or to the few that people are willing to take out their wallet for (like Netflix), we need a new solution if we're going to unanimously block ads.
- denisvlr 8y agoTo my knowledge that's basically what Google Contributor does: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta https://contributor.google.com/v/beta I don't think it ever caught on.
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- icebraining 8y agoPrivacy protections undermine that, since it would required individual targeting of ads (unless you could afford to pay for any ads shown to everyone in your demographics). You could try to form a coalition to do group purchases, but it's a hard thing to start, since the individual benefits would be small until you got a large number of members, whereas an adblocker is free and more effective. Plus, the ad network could still track you, which is one of the problems people have with ads.