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Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by q0uaur on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:11AM (#38567630)
we really need a better way of paying for content. There's some attempts going around of browsers or extensions paying sites, but the ones i've seen felt kinda scammy.

i'd love some service where i can put in $20 a month, and it gets split up among the sites i've visited, with options to give bigger shares or exclude sites completely. probably not gonna happen for a while though, having to set up something to receive payments with is just too much trouble for the small personal blogs etc. that have the most interesting content.

Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by freeAgent on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:51AM (#38567887)
Scroll used to basically do this, but then it was acquired by Twitter, lobotomized, and turned into a Twitter Blue feature. After that I gave up on it.
Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by carlosjobim on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:47AM (#38568378)
Honestly, I think a service like Kagi (together with their Orion browser) would be best suited to set up a service like this. I've been thinking for some time about exactly the idea you're proposing.

The interface could be so simple: a button in your browser you click to donate to the current open tab. That button turns into a pay button if you've opened a page that demands payment. And the page could specify how much it costs.

Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by freediver on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:53PM (#38571904)
We would love to do this, and we are waiting for the right technology to do so!
Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by plagiarist on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:35PM (#38573948)
I'd use a service like that as long as this removes all advertising and third-party analytics from the site as well.
Re:Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved w... by krageon on Friday December 08, 2023 @05:31PM (#38575545)
Payments online are a giant nightmare pit because the US finance world is very very scared of sex work. As long as that doesn't get solved, I don't see easily accessible and distributed payments working in a way that doesn't involve hoops most folks don't want to jump through (i.e. sending in ID to some corp that will definitely leak it a week later or cryptocurrency).