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I'm going to be honest with you: I would never use a website that used this service. I would just close the tab. I suspect most people would too. I don't have
by scarejunba 8y ago
I'm going to be honest with you: I would never use a website that used this service. I would just close the tab. I suspect most people would too.
I don't have the patience to be thinking about authorizing spend every time I click a link.
- ghaff 8y agoThat was Clay Shirky’s argument years ago during the first round of micropayments startups. While we do deal with micropayments in one sense every time we flip on a light switch and used to do so for phone calls, it feels different somehow for reading articles. We don’t want to have to ask ourselves if something is worth 10 cents every time we click a link.