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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by hodgesrm on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:10AM (#16849483)
The problem with metered schemes is that they inhibit users who feel they are burning money every time they touch a page. It's kind of like having to pay by the megabyte every time you use your phone on the Internet.

What about a general subscription model that gets you access to a wide range of websites? The point is to have a fixed price for consumers so they can read as much as you want. Distributing the money to sites you visit is a backend problem.

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by felipeccastro on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:34PM (#16859880)
That's what the Brave browser is doing: "Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit." (brave.com)

The downside is the high entry bar of installing a new browser and setting up a cryptocurrency wallet (payments are made with Basic Attention Tokens).

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by hodgesrm on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:06PM (#16863479)
I would look at implementing this using some sort of SSO (single sign-on) scheme. That gets around the problem of having to install new client software.

One obvious problem with all such schemes is how to prevent actors from gaming the system, e.g., to get free logins for self + a bunch of friends. I

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