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I think I would like to see mozilla do is act as a micropayments service provider to websites based on aggregated browsing history, and take a small service fe

by sn 6y ago

I think I would like to see mozilla do is act as a micropayments service provider to websites based on aggregated browsing history, and take a small service fee for it. I already use firefox. There's no other company right now I would trust more with some knowledge of my browsing history. I believe I would pay for a subscription service to support both mozilla and the news websites I visit. And they're already working on something like that it seems: https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-commons-want-to-reimagine-the-internet-without-ads-and-they-have-100m-to-do-it https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-co... There's a question of "what extra do you get for that payment" - maybe an NPR or PBS style pledge drive gift is a possible answer, not sure.

carlosdp 6y ago
This is exactly what Brave [1] does already, founded by one of the original cofounders of Mozilla. [1] https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/
- rriepe 6y ago
  Zuck the cuck drinks water like a duck Sorry but I just can't take them seriously with their absurd advertising.
  - kaszanka 6y ago
    > Zuck the cuck drinks water like a duck Where did you find that? Was it ever a part of Brave's official advertising material?
    - rriepe 6y ago
      Are you just curious, or is this like a witch hunt thing? Brave doesn't "get us" (the people it was advertising to) but I also don't want to see them suffer for trying. So I don't think I'll share that information with you.
      - kaszanka 6y ago
        I'm just curious because I didn't find this supposed ad campaign within a few minutes of searching, so to me it seems like it might never have been an official thing at all.
        rriepe 6y ago
        The full text of the ad is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/f7zcai/zucc_the_cuck_drinks_water_like_a_duck/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/f7zcai/zucc_the_... Somebody paid money for me to hear the word shwing-shwangs like 30 times. Looking into it more I think it was probably some sort of affiliate setup. Same end result for me.
- sn 6y ago
  Brave appears to be currently ad based, so no not the same. I guess the micropayment model failed, maybe because it used bitcoin? https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/ https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
johnghanks 6y ago
> There's no other company right now I would trust more with some knowledge of my browsing history so it's ok to simp mozilla but trusting google bad?

by sn 6y ago

carlosdp 6y ago

This is exactly what Brave [1] does already, founded by one of the original cofounders of Mozilla. [1] https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/

rriepe 6y ago
Zuck the cuck drinks water like a duck Sorry but I just can't take them seriously with their absurd advertising.
- kaszanka 6y ago
  > Zuck the cuck drinks water like a duck Where did you find that? Was it ever a part of Brave's official advertising material?
  - rriepe 6y ago
    Are you just curious, or is this like a witch hunt thing? Brave doesn't "get us" (the people it was advertising to) but I also don't want to see them suffer for trying. So I don't think I'll share that information with you.
    - kaszanka 6y ago
      I'm just curious because I didn't find this supposed ad campaign within a few minutes of searching, so to me it seems like it might never have been an official thing at all.
      - rriepe 6y ago
        The full text of the ad is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/f7zcai/zucc_the_cuck_drinks_water_like_a_duck/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/f7zcai/zucc_the_... Somebody paid money for me to hear the word shwing-shwangs like 30 times. Looking into it more I think it was probably some sort of affiliate setup. Same end result for me.
sn 6y ago
Brave appears to be currently ad based, so no not the same. I guess the micropayment model failed, maybe because it used bitcoin? https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/ https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/

johnghanks 6y ago

> There's no other company right now I would trust more with some knowledge of my browsing history so it's ok to simp mozilla but trusting google bad?