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At $1 it would be a no-brainer for me, but one possible argument I can see is that a flat fee is a funny arrangement here - I pay $3/mo if I make 100 searches a
by blacksmith_tb 4y ago
At $1 it would be a no-brainer for me, but one possible argument I can see is that a flat fee is a funny arrangement here - I pay $3/mo if I make 100 searches a day, or 1, or none. If the idea is that it would only be fair to Brave to pay them for what they aren't making by showing me ads, you might think it would make more sense to have me pay for exactly how much they lose, not less or more?
- paulcole 4y ago> you might think it would make more sense to have me pay for exactly how much they lose, not less or more You might think that, yes. Why is the flat fee “funny”? Netflix, Spotify, NYT, etc. all charge the flat fee. In fact I’m having a hard time thinking of any non-flat-fee consumer digital products.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoWell in broad terms those also are getting paid up front or making you watch / listen to ads instead, sure. In the case of SEM, the industry puts kind of a lot of energy into tracking ads, so it seems a little more straightforward to know how much I'm worth to them. But in more general terms, if we ever manage to sort out micropayments, I would prefer to pay as I go for everything - imagine the flat rate subscription model for say, your energy or water bill: "we're charging about what most families would use in a month; you say you're not a family of four? too bad."
- paulcole 4y ago> if we ever manage to sort out micropayments, I would prefer to pay as I go for everything I wouldn’t hold my breath lol.