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And that's the reason we have paywalls and ads crammed into every single square inch of screen estate and websites treating users as the product. And you tell m

And that's the reason we have paywalls and ads crammed into every single square inch of screen estate and websites treating users as the product. And you tell me that isn't broken? I'd be glad to pay a penny (or a fraction of it) for each comment on HN or whatever and have it fund the network (server hosting, staff, etc). Much better than the current alternative.

anhner 5y ago
>I'd be glad to pay a penny (or a fraction of it) for each comment on HN or whatever and have it fund the network (server hosting, staff, etc). Much better than the current alternative. Really? You'd prefer to pay for every single interaction on the web rather than be served an ad that you can block by the way anytime? What about people that don't have the luxury to throw away their money like that, should the internet exclude poor people from participating?
- birracerveza 5y ago
  Yes, I'd prefer to pay a fraction of a penny (which might go as low as $0.000001 for example) for each and every single one of my interactions, both read and write, and have it fund the decentralized network of data providers (servers, staff, users, ...) rather than have them try to extort money from me in predatory ways via ads, paywalls and the like. The fact you can block them only hides the problem and it's a pointless game of cat and mouse that only gets more and more devious. Of course that expenditure has to be reasonable, ideally $1/day for intensive use or something affordable by everyone or trivially subsidizable, either externally or by participating in the network. Costs ballooning out of proportion would be a problem of course, but the decentralized nature allows developers and users to move to another data provider once it proves it costs too much to operate (as it happened with Ethereum).
- MrMan 5y ago
  web3 is for the rich. can you get rich catering only to the wealthy? perhaps, if web3 also has a mechanism to perpetually tax the poor. something needs to keep trade flowing into their trade bloc. as it stands web3, if it were a country, would have. negative trade balance and no GPD (except for fees paid to miners and exchanges)
- xoserr 5y ago
  The whole idea is just so dumb. This comment I am making is not worth $.000000001 USD, it is worth exactly zero in whatever currency you want to denominate it in. $0 BTCH, $0 ETH, even $0 Zimbabwean Dollars. Take your pick. It might even be worth a negative amount of currency since it is a mostly pointless comment and anyone who reads this has kind of had their time wasted. That is practically most of what is online IMO and why micro payments are an idea that have not and never will take off.
ohgodplsno 5y ago
Hint: you'll pay a penny for the three sites that implement it (and who will make about 2 bucks a month out of it), and the majority of the web will still be massive corporations that will either stay on ads, or make you pay _and_ stay on ads.

anhner 5y ago

>I'd be glad to pay a penny (or a fraction of it) for each comment on HN or whatever and have it fund the network (server hosting, staff, etc). Much better than the current alternative. Really? You'd prefer to pay for every single interaction on the web rather than be served an ad that you can block by the way anytime? What about people that don't have the luxury to throw away their money like that, should the internet exclude poor people from participating?

birracerveza 5y ago
Yes, I'd prefer to pay a fraction of a penny (which might go as low as $0.000001 for example) for each and every single one of my interactions, both read and write, and have it fund the decentralized network of data providers (servers, staff, users, ...) rather than have them try to extort money from me in predatory ways via ads, paywalls and the like. The fact you can block them only hides the problem and it's a pointless game of cat and mouse that only gets more and more devious. Of course that expenditure has to be reasonable, ideally $1/day for intensive use or something affordable by everyone or trivially subsidizable, either externally or by participating in the network. Costs ballooning out of proportion would be a problem of course, but the decentralized nature allows developers and users to move to another data provider once it proves it costs too much to operate (as it happened with Ethereum).
MrMan 5y ago
web3 is for the rich. can you get rich catering only to the wealthy? perhaps, if web3 also has a mechanism to perpetually tax the poor. something needs to keep trade flowing into their trade bloc. as it stands web3, if it were a country, would have. negative trade balance and no GPD (except for fees paid to miners and exchanges)
xoserr 5y ago
The whole idea is just so dumb. This comment I am making is not worth $.000000001 USD, it is worth exactly zero in whatever currency you want to denominate it in. $0 BTCH, $0 ETH, even $0 Zimbabwean Dollars. Take your pick. It might even be worth a negative amount of currency since it is a mostly pointless comment and anyone who reads this has kind of had their time wasted. That is practically most of what is online IMO and why micro payments are an idea that have not and never will take off.

ohgodplsno 5y ago

Hint: you'll pay a penny for the three sites that implement it (and who will make about 2 bucks a month out of it), and the majority of the web will still be massive corporations that will either stay on ads, or make you pay _and_ stay on ads.