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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by huehehue on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:42PM (#9696945)
Re the service: a while back I had the idea that people could add a TXT record containing their BTC/PayPal/etc address and, as long as there existed a loose formatting standard, users could install an extension that activated when it detected you were on a site that accepted donations.

For obvious reasons, it would fall apart for sites like Medium, but I was attached to the idea.

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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by btown on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:54PM (#9696990)
Why not just a <meta name="payment"> HTML tag?
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Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iP... by huehehue on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:06PM (#9697209)
That would certainly work, with the added benefit of value changes by page; however, I imagine it would require more work to display on every page. There are too many ways to serve web pages, and having to change your site like that seems like a potential turn-off for an already [negative adjective here] platform.
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