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157 points mooreds | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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donatj ◴[25 Jun 25 03:15 UTC] No.44373354[source]▶
I was pondering this earlier today while manually prepending archive.is to a pay walled link on my Android phone for the umpteenth time today.

The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so much better than this.

The odds of me paying for a subscription for some tiny local newspaper on the other side of the country are literally nil, but I'd be far more willing toss you a penny or two to read the content of a single article.

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arrowsmith ◴[25 Jun 25 09:31 UTC] No.44375289[source]▶
> The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so much better than this.

Would it? As you point out, this idea has been floating around for at least twenty years, and there have been several attempts to implement it, but it's never come even remotely close to taking off.

If it was really such a good idea, it would surely be with us by now. "Better" for who?

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1. kalaksi ◴[25 Jun 25 09:50 UTC] No.44375410[source]▶
I always find this kind of reasoning shallow or somewhat circular. Plenty of tech in history has been too much ahead of their time, bogged down by missing related tech, a larger movement or otherwise didn't just make it big until later.