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I don’t know about you but I hate ads and like to pay for my content, I also don’t see why I’d want to give money to intermediaries every time I pay for someth

I don’t know about you but I hate ads and like to pay for my content, I also don’t see why I’d want to give money to intermediaries every time I pay for something. Why would I be against payments being built into browsers in a standardised and open source, open standards way if it might eventually solve those problems?

blitzar 5y ago
> I don’t know about you but I hate ads and like to pay for my content Since when has paying for content meant no ads? I pay for a newspaper - ads, I pay for cable tv - ads, I pay for the internet - ads, I pay road tax - ads, I go to the cinema - ads, I buy a ticket to a sporting event - ads. That is before we get to the influencer product placement world.
- robbedpeter 5y ago
  You can get ad-free content. Things like substack, YouTube premium, Netflix, some newspapers, lots of patreon clients, etc. That ads still exist in other places where you've ostensibly paid for the content doesn't invalidate the op's preferences.
  - blitzar 5y ago
    The ads still exist in the places you have paid for them, in litterally every example you gave. Netflix shows are giant ads. YouTube content has litteral ad reads in them. Newspapers - lol. You can get ad packed content free, you can get ad-free content, you can get paid content that has ads, or paid content that is ad-free. The "I paid for it" input has zero weight when it comes to determining if the content has ads is sponsored, infuenced or otherwise paid for.
- barnabee 5y ago
  Hating ads and liking to pay for the content are two separate things. I can do both… 1. As long as they’re paying a reasonable amount, paying customers should be more motivating to the company than whoever’s buying ads (because they provide more revenue), which means they are hopefully trying to keep me happy with their service. 2. I hate ads because I don’t want to see them, much less be distracted, or worse, influenced by them. So I pay for content and run browser and DNS level ad blockers aggressively on all devices, as well as using reader mode wherever possible. If I can’t avoid the ads I’ll usually go without. You’ll never find me watching broadcast TV.

blitzar 5y ago

> I don’t know about you but I hate ads and like to pay for my content Since when has paying for content meant no ads? I pay for a newspaper - ads, I pay for cable tv - ads, I pay for the internet - ads, I pay road tax - ads, I go to the cinema - ads, I buy a ticket to a sporting event - ads. That is before we get to the influencer product placement world.

robbedpeter 5y ago
You can get ad-free content. Things like substack, YouTube premium, Netflix, some newspapers, lots of patreon clients, etc. That ads still exist in other places where you've ostensibly paid for the content doesn't invalidate the op's preferences.
- blitzar 5y ago
  The ads still exist in the places you have paid for them, in litterally every example you gave. Netflix shows are giant ads. YouTube content has litteral ad reads in them. Newspapers - lol. You can get ad packed content free, you can get ad-free content, you can get paid content that has ads, or paid content that is ad-free. The "I paid for it" input has zero weight when it comes to determining if the content has ads is sponsored, infuenced or otherwise paid for.
barnabee 5y ago
Hating ads and liking to pay for the content are two separate things. I can do both… 1. As long as they’re paying a reasonable amount, paying customers should be more motivating to the company than whoever’s buying ads (because they provide more revenue), which means they are hopefully trying to keep me happy with their service. 2. I hate ads because I don’t want to see them, much less be distracted, or worse, influenced by them. So I pay for content and run browser and DNS level ad blockers aggressively on all devices, as well as using reader mode wherever possible. If I can’t avoid the ads I’ll usually go without. You’ll never find me watching broadcast TV.