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Yeah, it's weird that no one ever made that model work. I think it was tried?
by stevage 3y ago
Yeah, it's weird that no one ever made that model work. I think it was tried?
- Hamuko 3y agoFlattr was a kind of a version of that (although billed as "donations"), and it recently shut down. https://flattr.com/ https://flattr.com/
- vaylian 3y agoI appreciate the "service no longer exists" page. But is there any official statement why flattr was closed down?
- littlestymaar 3y agoI tried to use flattr a few years back, but the UX was horrible and for something that needs to become ubiquitous to be useful, that's not the kind of mistake you can afford.
- rglullis 3y agoTake the Brave browser, swap their crypto wallet for this.
- asgeirn 3y agoYeah, I know of one example where idea was actually created and pitched to media outlets. They did not like the idea. They very much more like the idea of owning the customer and keeping the customer paying subscriptions. I also know of a media outlet which incentivizes customer to go from credit card payment to automated bank transfers, since credit cards expire every x years but the bank transfer goes on forever.
- Yoric 3y agoA long time ago, Mozilla had a prototype of this, but it never took up, in part because there was no standard for web payments. Then Brave claimed to be working on this, I don't know the status. I believe that Chrome had someone working on this, too, at some point, but the project vanished.
- oblio 3y agoNot hard enough. The problem with this model is that it would be vendor agnostic and no one wants to be the "dumb pipe". Everyone wants to own the entire system, ergo, proprietary payment systems (Google/Apple/Samsung/Microsoft/... Pay).
- stevage 3y agoI don't think that's contradictory though. You sign up for you "media smorgasboard" service, and pay for it however you pay for it.