Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by dmortin on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:46AM
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That's why they need a log, because there will be cashback requests which people could abuse. And this will not necessarily be only pennies. A penny for a single page, for example, but if you visit many pages of the same site then the amount will be much higher and a user could claim then he has never visited that site and wants his money back.
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by buboard on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:23AM
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something similar is happening with ads nowadays. There is tons of fraud in ads and all earnings / payouts are approximate. yet the system works, even approximately. My guess is fraud will be a small percent, certainly tolerable
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by lunchables on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:48AM
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Seems like there has to be some method to solve this? Maybe the transaction is part of the page load? You don't get the page until you pay via anonymous cryptocurrency. No need for any post-transaction verification and reconciliation? The problem there will be if the page fails to load, how can I safely get a second attempt without creating some kind of "double-spending" problem.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by londons_explore on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:49AM
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There is.
You can do tracking in such a way only the person browsing has a log. In the case of a dispute, the log file can be revealed to the website so they can determine how to resolve the dispute.
In the undisputed case, the website wouldn't see the log.