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Unfortunately it's stuff like this that's poisoned otherwise cool new tech for me. I can't help but wonder "how will this be used to advertise to me?"
by 6177c40f 4y ago
Unfortunately it's stuff like this that's poisoned otherwise cool new tech for me. I can't help but wonder "how will this be used to advertise to me?"
- once_inc 4y agoOne of the cooler takes of Bitcoin or "crypto" is that you can use native tokens to pay for visiting websites. A browser plugin combined with a lightning wallet for instance could enable a website to request a payment of any amount of Satoshis to view the site, or it will redirect you to a 402 error page. This generates a way of monetizing content without the need for ads or tracking.
- koonsolo 4y agoBut then you need something like Nano instead of Bitcoin, which has 0 fees. Ideal for such micro transactions.
- dmtryshmtv 4y agoThis is implemented in the Brave browser.
- freddie_mercury 4y agoI'm not sure something that actively incentivises writers blather on endlessly, bury the lede, split their content over dozens of pages, slightly raising the price knowing that people will become densensitised to reading your per page costs, lock final review scores behind more expensive paywalls than the lower priced intro pages, and who knows what other dark patterns will be invented all while forcing me to make a determination every fifteen seconds on "is this worth the price they just asked?" is supposed to be a cool thing. If you thought recipe articles were terrible today, just wait until you have to pay 0.01 for their life story and then 0.03 for the ingredients only to discover that it will cost you another 0.15 for the actual instructions.
- Dylan16807 4y agoMicropayments existed long before bitcoin and adding a blockchain mostly just makes them more awkward.
- ETH_start 4y agoCrypto in general yes, but the lightning network specifically no. It's utterly impractical for most users, unless you use a third party hosted wallet, in which case almost all the benefits of crypto, like anti-lock-in and jurisdiction-agnoticism, go away. Crypto-powered micropayments could potentially massively boost revenue for content creators, including socially valuable platforms such as news sites.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoBitcoin has a throughput of 1 KB/s for the entire world, so it will never be used for micro transactions.
- theK 4y agoOr invade my privacy otherwise
- VLM 4y agoYes, it'll be used for workplace monitoring to generate easy to measure and rank KPIs for review time. Research indicates the ideal reading speed for corporate PR emails is 40 wpm and your teamwork KPI at review time will be stack ranked based on how close you move your eyes to the ideal 40 wpm reading rate.
- nottorp 4y ago> I can't help but wonder "how will this be used to advertise to me?" Or lie to you? VR storefront eh? Bet the product will look a lot better than it actually does in real life.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIf the VR is good enough, why would you even bother to visit it in real life?
- nottorp 4y agoTo see the actual product they're trying to sell? This is what TFA quoted as an application for the tech, virtual storefronts presumably for physical products.
- peeters 4y agoI mean, that's true today. I'm sure you've seen plenty of shops egregiously misrepresenting the sizes of products via forced perspective or outright editing in images. If they were to upload a 3D model it would only get more difficult to mislead about the physical characteristics of the product.
- nottorp 4y agoYou think theyd Upload it unedited? :)