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Paywalls are annoying because it forces you onto the few websites you pay for. Maybe we need a platform where you pay some fixed amount of money per month and
by timokoesters 4y ago
Paywalls are annoying because it forces you onto the few websites you pay for.
Maybe we need a platform where you pay some fixed amount of money per month and get access to many websites. At the end of the month you can decide how to split your money among the websites you used, defaulting to proportional to the amount of time you spent on the site.
The platform should be open so that anyone can add their website.
- jefftk 4y agoLots of people have played around with ideas like this, but nothing especially successful. One problem you'll run into is that people have vastly different amounts of money. While I might be content paying $50/month for unlimited internet, someone less well off might balk at $5/month. So either you set your price high enough that many people can't afford it, or you miss out on the ability to draw more money from people who can afford it. Additionally, different sites will have different views, often correctly, on how valuable their content is. An NYT article is much more expensive to produce than a Buzzfeed one, but your system compensates them the same (while the NYT is able to charge a premium for advertising today, plus runs their own paywall). Your proposal is also pretty exploitable: submit your own website and set the platform to always send 100% of your money to your own site.