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Right. It just needs to be a generic payment system. Much as we had premium rate dial up ISPs for a while to access porn (Apparently). It could just be a very
by axod 18y ago
Right. It just needs to be a generic payment system. Much as we had premium rate dial up ISPs for a while to access porn (Apparently).
It could just be a very simple setup:
1. webapp notices you're on ISP A
2. webapp asks ISP A to bill you $3/month
3. you get an email from your ISP asking for authorization
4. you click the link and it's added to your bill
- chadmalik 18y agoFor your consideration, PayPal subscriptions service: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-intro-outside https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-i... It works just fine and no need to get the thousands of ISPs that exist involved, which is incredibly messy.
- axod 18y agoSure, but the user still has to have paypal setup, credit card, etc. Going the ISP route is far cleaner, since they already have a billing relationship with the customer.
- tannerburson 18y agoBut this falls flat once you remove the assumption that a user only accesses the internet from a single ISP. So what happens when I decide to make that purchase on my lunch break at work? Or from the free wifi at the coffee shop? There was a time that this would have worked, but I think there are too many people that aren't tied to a single physical location for their internet services. And we haven't all switched to something provided by a cell company.