Absolutely not. A tiny list of reasons: - Zero guarantees that a new buyer of the website (or acqui-hirer of the content creator) won't pump it full of ads. -

Absolutely not. A tiny list of reasons: - Zero guarantees that a new buyer of the website (or acqui-hirer of the content creator) won't pump it full of ads. - Zero guarantees for that the website will not be full of trackers, with or without paying. - Promotion of the "content creator" profession which has its place but I worry that it gets promoted as the default way of sharing content. Knowledge must be free or else no human race progress is possible. - ...It's actually quite OK to want to charge money for your knowledge in some cases, sure. I know I would support 3 particular channels on YouTube personally, if I had more need of their videos (currently it's just a casual and rarely exercised interest). Making a guy like me pay will just make him leave. Everybody loses. - The proposed ways of implementing this monetization are deeply flawed. There are huge forum threads where freelancers are happily describing how to deceive a time-tracker software (not 100% related but IMO pretty close). - Zero guarantees the content won't get edited or deleted for variety of reasons, dodgy DMCA requests included. Why must I pay for something that the government or rich lawyers can disappear at any time? --- As a programmer this general idea gets a hard "NOPE!" from me, mostly because its execution cannot be guaranteed to be consumer-friendly. We need a new generation of tech that's completely divorced from corporations' and governments' interests for the web monetization to have even a small chance of ever taking off. One example: machine-enforceable contracts. ZERO human intervention must be possible. If I accept contract X on my machine then I don't care if the creator changes their mind tomorrow; they must grand-father my terms and conditions until I end the contract from my side. As for the monetization model: people will just compare pros and cons and will bail out when they are asked to pay for one more streaming-like service. Did we learn nothing from the rise of piracy which comes as a response to content fragmentation? --- TL;DR: Why must I play a game of dice when the dice are loaded?