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Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by freedomben on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:57PM (#30970324)
I'm sure some will want to do that, sure. Especially the marketing driven blogs/sites.

But they'll be competing against people that don't do that, so unless their content is really really good and unique, they'll lose in the market and either adapt or die. Maybe some mega celebrities could pull that off, but it would be pretty rare.

I mean, they could easily be doing that right now. $1.99 is high enough that the problem of micro payments isn't really a problem at that price. But they don't because it would be a terrible strategy...

Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by throwaway81523 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:23PM (#30970581)
> But they'll be competing against people that don't do that,

That's already the case, yet there is no way to escape. We need to go back to browsers that don't take over our computer (harvest personal info etc).

Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by freedomben on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:28PM (#30970627)
> That's already the case

How is anybody accepting micro payments currently? What technology do they use?

Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by didericis on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:45PM (#30970793)
The closest thing to micropayments deployed at scale right now seems to be youtube superchats, which use traditional banking stuff.

I believe there are people creating micropayment superchat like systems for crypto, but its difficult when its not integrated into the browser/not integrated into content as well as it is with youtube.

Brave has a pretty cool tipping feature that I’ve used a handful of times, but it’s not integrated into the user experience in a way that people actually use/very few people seem to know about it or use it.

Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by throwaway81523 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:31PM (#30971220)
I don't mean micropayments, I mean we have an ad infested surveillance web competing with an informative web, but because of how browsers work, the mere presence of informative sites doesn't much help escaping from the ads and surveillance. The problem is browsers enabling the surveillance and we should back away from that. Gemini had the right motivation, but made what I'd call newbie errors. I'd rather have something about like HTML3.
Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by thinkmassive on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:50PM (#30974341)
Aperture[1] is an http 402 reverse proxy that implements the LSAT[2] protocol. It’s already used in production but not yet well known.

I’m curious to know how it could be more widely adopted. Maybe a Flask integration? Other ideas?

1: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture

2: https://lsat.tech