Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by waynesonfire on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:30PM
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maybe whats needed is a system that tallies up the sites you've visited and at the end of the month you can just say, allocate 5 bucks among them. Or if you've had a rough month, maybe don't give anything. Maybe you can distribute you payments once a year. Or make slight adjustments to it and not give a site any money if you feel.
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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by GekkePrutser on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:32PM
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There've been several projects that did exactly that. Like Brave with their BAT tokens. But it never took off.
Personally I don't like them because these things don't normally opt you out of ad tracking as well. When I pay I want to be the customer and not be tracked. I also don't want to give any personal details. They know nothing about me when I buy a newspaper in the shop. It should be like this :)
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by waynesonfire on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:22PM
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Yeah, this is sort of a deal breaker. Another response to my original comment was a link to Flattr and from wikipedia it's a site "that records which websites they frequent and shares this data with Flattr" -- no thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by 0-_-0 on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:28PM
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Why do you say Brave tracks you?
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by GekkePrutser on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:05PM
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Not Brave itself, but the sites that you visit don't have to give up tracking per se (for participating users, of course). They should have to in order to participate IMO.
Brave will block tracking to some extent but we know it's not perfect.