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Re:Payment Request API by canremember on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:06PM (#15272674)
True micropayments integrated in browser would be amazing. Imagine instead of ads or subscriptions, you could pay a few pennies for an article. It would revolutionize online content, in a good way. Nobody would be willing to pay for clickbait type stuff, but I think people would be willing to pay for quality content and journalism.
Re:Payment Request API by sadlyNess on Sunday September 17, 2017 @10:29PM (#15272944)
There's been a debate for a while now about this. Clay Shirky, Walter Isaacson, Jakob Nielsen, Norman Hardy, Kevin Kelley and others have expressed arguments for and against(mostly for) micropayments. But there's yet to be a success story, most early implementations failed(BitPass, Ezcash, Peppercoin) but that was before cryptocurrencies. Now there's a new crop(Steemit, 21.co?, etc) that are trying again. Interesting to see how this will all pan out.
Re:Payment Request API by amelius on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:23AM (#15274201)
I want to pay a fixed amount per month, and distribute that money over the websites I visited, weighted by the time I spent there.
Re:Payment Request API by askvictor on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:39AM (#15274490)
A micropayment system tied in to browsing history might make this possible. Otherwise it would require essentially a syndicated subscription system, which is server side, but would need enough content producers on board to make feasible, and they probably wouldn't be able to agree.
Re:Payment Request API by cmsd2 on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:32AM (#15275262)
Re:Payment Request API by alwillis on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:35AM (#15273803)
True micropayments integrated in browser would be amazing.

You might want to check out Brave, a Chromium-based browser with micropayments built-in: https://brave.com/publishers/.