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Re:There are no acceptable ads by DougBTX on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:53AM (#11233442)
> Micro payments cannot come soon enough.

Any idea how to encourage quality content with micropayments? The naive implementation would be to charge on opening the article, but I suspect that would just encourage more click-bait headlines. Short articles can still contain good content, so just tracking reading time wouldn't be sufficient either.

Re:There are no acceptable ads by peteretep on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:01AM (#11233468)
Blendle allows no-question refunds, and it seems to be working very well. I think you'd have to do it that way.
Re:There are no acceptable ads by erasmus on Monday March 07, 2016 @03:22AM (#11237750)
For the Bitcoiners, there's the nano-paywall from https://satoshipay.io/ . (I'm part of the team working on this). We're currently trying to integrate fiat payments too, which would make this a browser wallet of sorts that can be used to pay micro-amounts to publishers. Still early days, but think we're on to something with a lot of potential.
Re:There are no acceptable ads by Rexxar on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:02AM (#11233473)
Pay a fixed amount every month to a third party that redistribute money to all the articles that you "liked" with a button.
Re:There are no acceptable ads by sandebert on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:27AM (#11233538)
That's the model of Flattr. I have no idea how successful they are though.

https://flattr.com

Re:There are no acceptable ads by icebraining on Sunday March 06, 2016 @08:07AM (#11233618)
I have a Flattr account, but I only use it for regular contributions to a couple of open source projects, since I never see a button anywhere.
Re:There are no acceptable ads by petercooper on Sunday March 06, 2016 @10:26AM (#11234057)
Being in the content game, it's because it's totally not worth littering pages for the 5 cents a month it'd make.

I'm hyperbolizing, but even if it were $100/month, it wouldn't be worth the space. What this space needs is someone with deep pockets to subsidize the publisher growth until the critical mass of users is reached.

Re:There are no acceptable ads by dave2000 on Sunday March 06, 2016 @08:44AM (#11233727)
Micropayments have been the obvious - to me - solution for this problem since I got on the internet in 1997. Still never seen it employed anywhere. Yes, heard of flattr. Never seen a single site that uses it.
Re:There are no acceptable ads by peteretep on Sunday March 06, 2016 @12:46PM (#11234650)
I feel like unless it's opt-out per article, you'll forget to click often enough that the price of clicking will have to be high