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Yep, these exist as alternatives as of now, but require an explicit payment step which might cause more friction than ads. I think a service that allows for we

• JoshTriplett 6y ago
  > Yep, these exist as alternatives as of now, but require an explicit payment step which might cause more friction than ads. Payment from one user produces more revenue than showing ads to hundreds of users. That should be multiplied in to any analysis of friction. > I think a service that allows for website usage based payments, a Spotify/Apple News for websites would be interesting. There have been many attempts to do that, none of which have succeeded. One major problem: they tend to track all your web activity, and the kinds of people interested in services like this are very much the kinds of people who don't want to be tracked. Another problem: it's easier to convince people to pay for a specific source of content than to amorphously pay for "various content".