Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com
by 4dahalibut on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:27PM
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crypto solves this
Something like brave solves it, by automatically paying without you deciding or not, hiding the cost in your electrical bill, or in higher prices at cafes.
But you can have automatic payments without crypto too. Hiding payments from the UX is what's actually solving the problem
It's "solving the problem" in the sense that it's spending your money without getting your explicit approval. That does make sense in some cases--my electrical, oil, and water bill basically work that way--but they're also pretty predictable and I probably couldn't realistically reduce them all that much even if I wanted to.
ADDED: That said, it's not unrealistic to imagine a "hidden" micropayments scheme that deducts automatically and lets you know and/or just turns off if you hit some monthly threshold.
Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com
by jakopo87 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:36AM
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That's exactly how Brave works after you setup the wallet and it gives you two options:
- pay a variable amount to the website you visit, based on how many visits and time you spent on;
- pay a fixed amount to a website of your choice;
Both options can be enabled at the same time, and the minimum number of visit, or the minimum length of the same, is adjustable;
Flattr[0] should be similar with fiat currency.
The relative recent popularity of all-you-can-eat streaming of music and video vs. a la carte purchases would seem to support this view--although one could also argue that digital music and video purchases aren't really "micro."