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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by mrfusion on Monday September 16, 2019 @05:18PM (#20988674)
I mean just buying something without giving them your email or filling out a ton of fields would remove a ton of friction.

I could see myself paying 25 cents to read a NYT article right now as an impulse buy. But how does it even work right now. They’d probably ask for my email, phone, and address. Then I’d have to enter credit card details.

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by noxer on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:12AM (#20993143)
You have to register at Coil.com You pay with CC or whatever you like to Coil. Your browsers streams money as soon as you visit a site that implements web monetization over IPL. The site doesn't need any info from you it has the address to stream to in the HTML of the site. So your payment is theoretically anonymous ofc the site can still see your IP, fingerprint your browser etc.
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