I think we just need a few people to show how things ought to work and get that to be popular. If we all hate ads enough and tracking, how about we invent a co

I think we just need a few people to show how things ought to work and get that to be popular. If we all hate ads enough and tracking, how about we invent a convenient way to pay for content across sites anonymously? I really like the design behind GNU Taler, which is a simple centralized cryptocurrency without the mining BS, so it can be used as a simple standin for currency, like PayPal. All we need to do is make a few popular content creation services use it, tipping small amounts for gratis content and larger amounts for access to pay restricted content. The only cookies that need to exist are proof of payment, cryptographically tied to the transaction. I don't want to sign up for $10/month or whatever to access an article or view a video, I just want to access some given content. I do want to subscribe to content that I consume consistently to get a bulk discount, and I'd rather pay a little bit than see ads. That being said, every payment system so far is more work than it's worth to send a dollar or less, and the fees on top remove a lot of the value. I'd rather put $X into an account each month and click a button to send a small part of that to the content creator with little to no fees involved (maybe a one time load fee if anything). The internet is only broken because the current solutions are insufficient and we've turned to legislation instead of innovation to solve the problem.