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I’m going to break character and talk about my work - I’m at a company, Scroll.com , that sorta does micropayments - but instead of having an account that you d

I’m going to break character and talk about my work - I’m at a company, Scroll.com , that sorta does micropayments - but instead of having an account that you drain as you browse, we have a flat monthly subscription that we divide up among the sites in our network. Payout is based on the ratios of how much time you spent on each site. So if you read a lot or a little it’s the same, from your point of view. And generally it still delivers more $ per impression than advertising would. Also, we hope that it will incentivize better content than impression-based payments does

tjpnz 7y ago
I recall having a similar idea a few years back. How do you signup clients who insist on a larger payout? Do you have any policies in place to dissuade content producers from displaying ads to your users?
- jes5199 7y ago
  We _require_ that ads and other trackers are removed for our customers (basically, when we have a certain cookie set). And our users know that if they see our logobar on a site that they shouldn’t see ads- so they report if something goes wrong. But cash-wise - the pitch is only that our users will bring in more money than ads - if you want to, for example, put premium content behind a paywall, that’s fine, we don’t get involved with that. But, like with advertising, the only real way to increase your payout is to get more unique users.
  - mewpmewp2 7y ago
    I have had this idea also in my head for quite a while. Did not bother to search if it was already done. I am do tired of paywalled things/ads. I do not lind paying, but I don't want to subscribe everytime someone sends me a paywalled link on another website. How many websites and customers do you have?
    - jes5199 7y ago
      here’s the official list of sites: https://scroll.com/sites https://scroll.com/sites and we’ll be adding more soon I’m not sure that our user count is public information right now - but we just came out of private beta last week and it’s growing fast!
smichel17 7y ago
Isn't that what flattr did?
- jes5199 7y ago
  there are a few competitors in this space, yes. We also get compared to Brave’s attention coin system. We’re differentiated in that we parter with major news-media sites - newspapers and magazines, mostly, so far.

tjpnz 7y ago

I recall having a similar idea a few years back. How do you signup clients who insist on a larger payout? Do you have any policies in place to dissuade content producers from displaying ads to your users?

jes5199 7y ago
We _require_ that ads and other trackers are removed for our customers (basically, when we have a certain cookie set). And our users know that if they see our logobar on a site that they shouldn’t see ads- so they report if something goes wrong. But cash-wise - the pitch is only that our users will bring in more money than ads - if you want to, for example, put premium content behind a paywall, that’s fine, we don’t get involved with that. But, like with advertising, the only real way to increase your payout is to get more unique users.
- mewpmewp2 7y ago
  I have had this idea also in my head for quite a while. Did not bother to search if it was already done. I am do tired of paywalled things/ads. I do not lind paying, but I don't want to subscribe everytime someone sends me a paywalled link on another website. How many websites and customers do you have?
  - jes5199 7y ago
    here’s the official list of sites: https://scroll.com/sites https://scroll.com/sites and we’ll be adding more soon I’m not sure that our user count is public information right now - but we just came out of private beta last week and it’s growing fast!

smichel17 7y ago

Isn't that what flattr did?

jes5199 7y ago
there are a few competitors in this space, yes. We also get compared to Brave’s attention coin system. We’re differentiated in that we parter with major news-media sites - newspapers and magazines, mostly, so far.