One of the reasons might me that we still do not have any standard baked micropayment system for the Internet.
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General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 months agoHave you ever encountered error code 402? Payment Required
That’s been part of HTTP since at least 1992. His w3c wanted to make micropayments part of the web. The reason it did not take off is that no one had a use for it. The web was too cheap to meter.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There were a bunch of systems, back during the dotcom bubble. You can see a list in the specs: www.w3.org/ECommerce/Micropayments/Overview.html#…
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This would be perfect for the current problem of monetizing journalism. I am happy to pay a small fee to read an article. I am not ok subscribing to your entire website that requires an account when I get blasted with unsolicited emails and my data is sold to a 3rd party to pad your profits.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You don’t really sound like someone who’d be happy to have a payment system hard-coded into their browser. I don’t think it would help, either. Just as with ads you’d be monetizing clickbait and not journalism.