100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web

Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by UncleMeat on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:18PM (#20989101)

There's been dozens of these products. Some have even been supported by Google, Facebook, and Co.

Nobody uses them.

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by xur17 on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:39PM (#20989266)

Can you give a few examples?

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by vkou on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:54PM (#20989384)

https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

The gp post is correct. When given the option between an ad, adblock, or tipping, people overwhelmingly choose option #1 or #2.

They then complain about ads, if they chose #1, and about adblock naggers, if they chose #2.

And, of course, all three sets of people lose their mind when they run into a paywall.

There is no non-legislative solution to this problem.

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by iaml on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:51AM (#20995030)

Google contributor most likely was a failure because they didn't do anything about promoting it. I only learned about it on hn and after it was already dead.

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by elcritch on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:17AM (#20992852)

Simple, paywall but provide an option to pay a reasonable price for an article, say $0.25 instead of tipping or ads. Of course NYT and all want a sleezy $5 subscription that’ll balloon to $30/mo in three months.

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