But it seems to think of humans and adtech bidding ecosystems as identical economic agents. If we're all perfect consumers, sure, the system converges to an equilibrium.
That seems like a mighty generous "if". It's already annoying to manage the mental cost of schemes like Patreon's. How much more annoying is to have to forecast, several weeks in advance, a bidding system that settles in milliseconds, millions of times per minute?
It's worth noting that I may be misunderstanding or misrepresenting the nuances and design of the Contributor scheme. I'm a potential competitor, my remarks ought to be look on skeptically.
But likewise I ask people to follow the money. Cui bono? In this case: Google.
...hang on, when did google contributor relaunch as a service that pays per-page-load, is opt-in per domain, and is basically useless?
Google, you manage to do youtube red just fine. Try harder.
This somewhat widens my ray of hope.
Good luck! I love the idea of micropayments from a fixed budget to support sites, but Contributor's bidding-based system was not a good path at all.
> they will only be guaranteed to show up in Chrome if they use adsense
That's the worst-case scenario, as far as power abuse here. But they might be fair! We'll have to see.