Re:Payment Request API
by frik on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:00AM
(#15273676)
I fear this too.
First they try to make HTTP impossible to use (nag pop up) to limit the websites, then they try to introduce pay-per-view model and subscription model.
Welcome back to the pre-1999 AOL/MicrosoftNetwork/Compuserve/BTX/Minitel/etc - closed networks where pay-per-page-view was prevailing - then the free open WWW won, supported by advertising.
The good thing, it only takes other websites that provide the same or comparable content for free.
Re:Payment Request API
by askvictor on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:17AM
(#15273928)
Quality content costs money. How do you propose paying journalists to investigate and write? It's either ads, payments of some sort (micro or subscription) or state-sponsored media. My original comment was not out of fear, quite the opposite.
First they try to make HTTP impossible to use (nag pop up) to limit the websites, then they try to introduce pay-per-view model and subscription model.
Welcome back to the pre-1999 AOL/MicrosoftNetwork/Compuserve/BTX/Minitel/etc - closed networks where pay-per-page-view was prevailing - then the free open WWW won, supported by advertising.
The good thing, it only takes other websites that provide the same or comparable content for free.