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I'm not going to pay for every stupid little thing I do on the internet. And I'm sure there have been attempts at stuff like this, but who really wants this?

• arcturus17 7y ago
  I don't know if I would mind so much donating, say, $20 / month worth of microtransactions to content I really enjoy... The problem would be the friction of deciding what I reward and what I don't. I don't want to make 200 decisions like that every month in my day to day browsing. If you bundle it, then it's basically just a subscription (I already pay for, say, the Atlantic). If you let an algorithm decide for you, then it probably becomes a shitshow. Maybe there's a genius idea to solve this massive UX problem but I certainly don't see it.
  • mrlala 7y ago
    >The problem would be the friction of deciding what I reward and what I don't. I don't want to make 200 decisions like that every month in my day to day browsing. Yeah that is exactly the problem. It would be like having an ala-carte TV cable where you were charged every time you turned on the TV to watch a certain show. I just wouldn't do it.
• wutbrodo 7y ago
  > when I'm at my house browsing the internet I would really like to not have to constantly be mindfucked with small purchases every moment. Do you feel this way about using the toaster, shower, every light switch, turning on the TV, marginal usage of rechargeable electronics, etc? You already make "micropayments" for a million tiny, less-discrete usages of electricity, but have learned to adapt to only getting feedback and adjusting usage at a monthly cadence. Why do you assume this couldn't also be the case for Internet usage?