Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model
feannag@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoWhat’s challenging about paywalls and not wanting to spend money is not necessarily not wanting to spend, but convenience and cost. If it costs me 10 cents for each blog or tutorial or github page I look at while working on a project, or 1 cent for every funny video, that adds up. And do I have to put my credit card in for every site? Hope that every site has good enough security to prevent payment information leaks?
And I don’t think anyone is interested in a Netflix-style internet that fractures into 6 different subscriptions to get every site you need on the web.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Some sort of universal microtransaction layer is the dream. I believe there’s also a proposed web standard for it.
Scroll was also making it work before they got bought by Twitter
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s exactly Elon Musk’s goal with making Twitter a payment platform.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Scroll was just for reading websites though. Musk seems to want We chat style super app
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hah. No. That goes all the way back to the 90ies. Tim Berners-Lee proposed that standard.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Did I say Elon came up with the idea? I said that’s his goal.
Also not saying it like it’s a good thing, just stating a fact.