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If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately.

If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately. But what I don't want is a micropayment system that just turns into a big tracking system to track my reading habits across a wide variety of news sources.

vicnicius 4y ago
Coil proposes something on these lines: https://interledger.org/case-studies/coil/ https://interledger.org/case-studies/coil/
quonn 4y ago
A micropayment system might lead to even more clickbait teasers etc. I would like an option to buy a complete issue in a simple way.
takoid 4y ago
You’re basically describing Basic Attention Token, or BAT.
- codetrotter 4y ago
  Yep BAT is a pretty cool idea. I have yet to see anyone actually use it though :/
reaperducer 4y ago
If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately. There was a service like this maybe 10 years ago. You subscribed to the service and then you could pay something like 3¢ or 5¢ to read different articles. The problem was that it didn't carry the entire newspaper, only "featured" articles. And it only had maybe a dozen periodicals in its collection. Great idea. Poorly executed
basch 4y ago
You likely already have something like this through your local library, that you already chip in to pay for.
- FalconSensei 4y ago
  this assuming the local library has whatever they wanna read available.
Veserv 4y ago
Pennies per article is a absurd markup. The normal rates I see on the internet for ad-supported businesses is on the order of 200 cents per 1000 views, or 5 views per cent. If they charged you even a cent per article they are already marking it up to 500% of their ad-supported rates.
anotherhue 4y ago
Ye olde Xanadu had this in their scope. I think it went further and allowed a paragraph based granularity.
- jdougan 3y ago
  Finer granularity than that. At least in Xanadu Classic/Green/88.1 the granularity was down to the byte

vicnicius 4y ago

Coil proposes something on these lines: https://interledger.org/case-studies/coil/ https://interledger.org/case-studies/coil/

quonn 4y ago

A micropayment system might lead to even more clickbait teasers etc. I would like an option to buy a complete issue in a simple way.

takoid 4y ago

You’re basically describing Basic Attention Token, or BAT.

codetrotter 4y ago
Yep BAT is a pretty cool idea. I have yet to see anyone actually use it though :/

reaperducer 4y ago

If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately. There was a service like this maybe 10 years ago. You subscribed to the service and then you could pay something like 3¢ or 5¢ to read different articles. The problem was that it didn't carry the entire newspaper, only "featured" articles. And it only had maybe a dozen periodicals in its collection. Great idea. Poorly executed

basch 4y ago

You likely already have something like this through your local library, that you already chip in to pay for.

FalconSensei 4y ago
this assuming the local library has whatever they wanna read available.

Veserv 4y ago

Pennies per article is a absurd markup. The normal rates I see on the internet for ad-supported businesses is on the order of 200 cents per 1000 views, or 5 views per cent. If they charged you even a cent per article they are already marking it up to 500% of their ad-supported rates.

anotherhue 4y ago

Ye olde Xanadu had this in their scope. I think it went further and allowed a paragraph based granularity.

jdougan 3y ago
Finer granularity than that. At least in Xanadu Classic/Green/88.1 the granularity was down to the byte