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we really need a better way of paying for content. There's some attempts going around of browsers or extensions paying sites, but the ones i've seen felt kinda
by q0uaur 3y ago
we really need a better way of paying for content. There's some attempts going around of browsers or extensions paying sites, but the ones i've seen felt kinda scammy.
i'd love some service where i can put in $20 a month, and it gets split up among the sites i've visited, with options to give bigger shares or exclude sites completely. probably not gonna happen for a while though, having to set up something to receive payments with is just too much trouble for the small personal blogs etc. that have the most interesting content.
- freeAgent 3y agoScroll used to basically do this, but then it was acquired by Twitter, lobotomized, and turned into a Twitter Blue feature. After that I gave up on it.
- carlosjobim 3y agoHonestly, I think a service like Kagi (together with their Orion browser) would be best suited to set up a service like this. I've been thinking for some time about exactly the idea you're proposing. The interface could be so simple: a button in your browser you click to donate to the current open tab. That button turns into a pay button if you've opened a page that demands payment. And the page could specify how much it costs.
- freediver 3y agoWe would love to do this, and we are waiting for the right technology to do so!
- plagiarist 3y agoI'd use a service like that as long as this removes all advertising and third-party analytics from the site as well.
- krageon 3y agoPayments online are a giant nightmare pit because the US finance world is very very scared of sex work. As long as that doesn't get solved, I don't see easily accessible and distributed payments working in a way that doesn't involve hoops most folks don't want to jump through (i.e. sending in ID to some corp that will definitely leak it a week later or cryptocurrency).