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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by 205guy on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:15PM (#20989499)
My idea was just to have this integrated into your ISP bill.

I once thought that ISPs should pay for all content, then pass the bill onto users + costs-and-profit. I guess there would need to be separate standardized rates for video, audio, and text, but that creates a ton of regulatory and technical issues. Not the least of which is people don't want to pay. It would be like music licensing essentially, and look how that played out.

So just make it all voluntary like patreon, but integrated into my ISP billing, and give me an app/browser add-on to make payments and track my spending.

Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by jamesrcole on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:50AM (#20994362)
Say there are three people living together in a share house/unit, all sharing the one internet connection. There'd have to be a way to deal with cases like this.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by ryacko on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:43PM (#20990393)
Security issues. Ad fraud is already bad enough.

And small children paying a thousand dollars for an app does reach the news.