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I wish there was some mechanism to pay for websites out of your monthly bill. You pay x for internet, and y% is proportionally used to pay for your visits to we
by wasdfff 7y ago
I wish there was some mechanism to pay for websites out of your monthly bill. You pay x for internet, and y% is proportionally used to pay for your visits to websites a,b,c.
You wouldn’t have to pay to host your site or worry about it bogging down if its been posted on reddit or hn, if it is payed for by visiting users out of their monthly bill to their ISP.
- philwelch 7y agoThis is called microtransactions and it’s been a dream for a long time. The fact that it wasn’t baked into the web from the outset probably means it’s less likely to ever happen, and even if it did, you’d still have the same clickbait business models so aside from the advertising itself, it wouldn’t improve matters. In fact there wouldn’t be any reason for websites not to double down and have ads anyway! Brave, ironically, is one of the few attempts to solve the microtransaction problem.
- Beldin 7y agoActually, ads are the only model of microtransactions that has worked in practice. So the good news is that there is a practical method of microtransactions! The minor downside is that is not C2B, but B2B.