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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).

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