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The payment friction can be taken away, but before every link I click, I would still be thinking to myself: "Is what I'm about to read worth ten cents?"
by somebodythere 5y ago
The payment friction can be taken away, but before every link I click, I would still be thinking to myself: "Is what I'm about to read worth ten cents?"
- db48x 5y agoDefinitely. No one would read replies to their own comments either, because they would have to pay back the money they earned when their interlocuter read their comment.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoThe worst part is, this model would incentivize clickbait even more.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis is precisely the problem. I subscribed to some sort of a pay-per-article newspaper site some time ago, and the idea of paying 8-17c per article made me fear committing to reading anything. I ended up dropping it. Really, "micro" payments are not micro at all! "Micro" should mean a thousandth of a dollar at most, with the assumption that volume will make up for the profit.