Re:A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are
by stackghost on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:21PM
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> The good answer to your dilemma is x402: https://x402.org/ Nothing in life is free; you've been paying with your attention via ads, which is where the urge to fingerprint comes from (targeting). Agentic AI is rapidly killing web ads as a revenue source. It's time to stop kicking the can on micropayments.
Never gonna happen. Why would I pay to access content before I can even determine if the content is worth paying for? And if you let me see the content before I pay, what’s my incentive for paying at all?
Micropayments as a concept is predicated upon the idea that people are producing content worth paying for.
The inconvenient truth is that the vast majority of the pre-LLM web was not worth paying a single cent for, and the problem is even worse today.
Never gonna happen. Why would I pay to access content before I can even determine if the content is worth paying for? And if you let me see the content before I pay, what’s my incentive for paying at all?
Micropayments as a concept is predicated upon the idea that people are producing content worth paying for.
The inconvenient truth is that the vast majority of the pre-LLM web was not worth paying a single cent for, and the problem is even worse today.