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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by summerlight on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:40PM (#22048444)
As long as this patronage gets traction enough to support creators' livelihood. Unfortunately, the majority is not going to spend a single cent on those small creators when their alternatives are high quality contents built upon millions of dollars. It's even proven by Google Contributor program's failure.
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by JohnFen on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:05PM (#22050539)
> It's even proven by Google Contributor program's failure.

Although I think your point is correct, I don't think that this program's failure is evidence for it. I give cash money to numerous small creators, but there's absolutely no way that I would have used the Google Contributer program to do it. That requires more trust in Google than I can muster.

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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by summerlight on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:58PM (#22057235)
The point is that this needs to be done at scale. Even with Google's advantage on its pre-established publisher ecosystem, they couldn't make it because most publishers quickly realized that donation was not enough to offset the loss from disabling advertisements.
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