Re:Mmm, Pi-hole
by cestith on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:41PM
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I understand it's about cognitive costs. What I propose makes the cognitive load of actual monetary payment a single decision per month. I pay X. Let the aggregator and the publishers automatically figure out every little fractional detail.
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If the objective of paying is to make the web better and reward quality content, you don't want two pages of clickbait to pay more than one page of watergate-level investigative reporting.
And any automated system to tell clickbait from quality journalism will incentivise people to trick it.
So at the very least, you need a refund button.
they could do it like medium “claps”.
No claps, no money.
Clap as long as you want.
At the end of each month your $10 is divided up by the number of claps you gave.
And if this isn’t for you, then go with ads or be paywalled.