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I like the idea of giving users a painless way to donate to the sites they use. And giving thank-yous in place of advertising is a good way to reduce the incent
by noahl 12y ago
I like the idea of giving users a painless way to donate to the sites they use. And giving thank-yous in place of advertising is a good way to reduce the incentive to freeload.
I do worry that $1-3 a month is much lower than the value I get from the sites I visit, and consequently not enough to support low-traffic sites that should be supported. They also didn't mention how they distribute your money - equally to all the sites you visit? Proportionally to the number of visits? On a related note, can participating sites choose to eliminate ads only if a user will contribute enough money to them, or must they eliminate ads for every contributor in order to participate at all?
But the real question is, will google.com itself accept Contributor money? And will it eliminate ads for contributors?
- pfhayes 12y agoI assume that you will pay the same way an advertiser would pay - by bidding for the space. If your bid exceeds the bids of anyone else trying to advertise there, nothing will be shown. Otherwise you'll be shown an ad as normal.
- jacques_chester 12y agoEqually doesn't seem intuitively fair; per-visit is good but has to be adjusted in the face of AJAXy sites and how hilariously easy it is to stuff the ballot box. I'm going to guess proportionally. Every other such scheme has been proportional. Google can solve the fake visit problem with pattern-matching wizardry. Readability tried to solve it by turning themselves into a proxy server. I solved it by using a cryptographically-assured end-to-end scheme that requires two mutually distrustful parties to verify that a request was made.