Re:402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
by nine_k on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:21PM
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Who in their right mind would need micropayments like this?
Of course, any reasonable solution would take, say, $10 from you, and allow you to just press "pay" anywhere a paywall is encountered. Of course it would just auto-pay for articles on sites you put in a whitelist, within a limit you set. All the clearing is done in non-micro amounts, say, monthly.
Such solutions do exist. The problem, of course, is the buy-in from site owners. I suspect that running better ads just has a higher ROI.
Of course, any reasonable solution would take, say, $10 from you, and allow you to just press "pay" anywhere a paywall is encountered. Of course it would just auto-pay for articles on sites you put in a whitelist, within a limit you set. All the clearing is done in non-micro amounts, say, monthly.
Such solutions do exist. The problem, of course, is the buy-in from site owners. I suspect that running better ads just has a higher ROI.