bonqis

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by bonqis 9y ago
Yes, like me.
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by bonqis 9y ago
There is nothing like that in our extension, feel free to check the code =)
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by bonqis 9y ago
Yes, now it's a subscription service.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Nope, not possible on any content site (eg youtube) and it also needs the site to add it. Neither would it give us enough data to create what we have done. The algorithm in the extension is smarter about what it flattrs than a cookie could
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by bonqis 9y ago
You hit the head on the nail, but from the wrong angle ;) That what you liked was actually exactly why we failed so far. 1. Users needed to do a conscious choice, clicking the button. Our research and data showed that was not what people wa
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by bonqis 9y ago
Nope, Patreon focuses on person and fame, and is one to one payments. We focus on content and divides your money to any number of creators.
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by bonqis 9y ago
4. North Korea
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by bonqis 9y ago
Absolutely the opposite! We keep all your private data on your device where the algorithm runs and makes decisions on what to flattr. Instead of sending it all to us and then do the same on our servers. This is very conscious choice to make
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by bonqis 9y ago
Yes, this is correct. In general payment providers has these set of rules/policies, that because the large institutions like Visa, Mastercard and banks does not accept these areas of payments.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Ok, that is not really what happened. But it's a too long story for a HN comment ;)
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by bonqis 9y ago
Ah, true. The reason the blog is on .net is for security reasons. We don't want to have a WP blog (with all it's flaws) on a domain that should be trusted by our own system. That said, a FW from .net to .com seems logical, and a l
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by bonqis 9y ago
The extension is how we can make the solution without any need for integration into sites (and services) and without any effort for the contributor. This is what we learned during the years to be needed for this to work on scale. (The chang
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by bonqis 9y ago
:( yeah, things took way longer than we wanted. It always does.
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by bonqis 9y ago
There is no way of just paying eyeo to get your ads through the system. If you confirm to the acceptable ads standard your ads can be classified as that and visible to the people that has not chosen to block those too. For the huge sites, a
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by bonqis 9y ago
In reality it's the opposite and that is why we join their boat. There is no company that tries to fix the internet in the profound way eyeo does. They care about all the things most internet companies does not. The reputation they got
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by bonqis 9y ago
Pretty good summary! We have tried to be as thorough as we could with what data the extension saves in local storage, even with the first release. There are always improvements that can be done and will be done. We are going to add to the b
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by bonqis 9y ago
The extension uses a lot of data points (including your browser history) to decide what to flattr. But we never get the full data, the algorithm runs in the browser and only the results (the flattrs) are sent to us. This is the most privacy
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by bonqis 9y ago
Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢. So on $3 that would be 0.387 cents that is 12.9% fee.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Not really, you can flattr others with it, but that is more because it would be strange if you could not do it.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Hi, I'm Linus co-founder of Flattr. Will try and answer any questions you might have!
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by bonqis 9y ago
Exactly, you can not ask people to "care" and make "informed decisions" around tiny amounts. Then they will just skip it.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Not really, Flattr distributes your subscription automatically between the content and sites you engage with. Without the need of user interaction.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Yes, everything flattred is visible for you on your dashboard. But not all data or everything you visited etc, as that is a to high of a privacy invasion.
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by bonqis 9y ago
Sure, drop me an mail at linus at flattr
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by bonqis 9y ago
I co-founded Flattr and one of the things we learned is that even a one-click is to much effort. So we now have a zero-click solution that measures attention and visits in your browser locally (as Archon810 wrote.) and then your monthly sub