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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

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157 points mooreds | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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nlawalker ◴[25 Jun 25 03:20 UTC] No.44373377[source]▶
I’d even pay a respectable amount more than that, but it needs to take like 3 seconds tops with no typing. Heck, the faster it is, the more likely I’d be to impulse buy more content from the same place.

I’d be fine with some up front work to create an account and associate a payment method or something, but not on each individual site. PayPal pretty much fits the bill for me for most transactions, where is PayPal for microtransactions?

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cco ◴[25 Jun 25 03:57 UTC] No.44373516[source]▶
I'd love it if a wallet in my Chrome browser would let websites show me a prompt (paywall) that would charge me some small number of cents. Hold down for two seconds to pay.

A dream. Too bad crypto fees make this as untenable as credit cards.

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jdminhbg ◴[25 Jun 25 04:50 UTC] No.44373709[source]▶
> Too bad crypto fees make this as untenable as credit cards.

Nah, you can send USDC for less than a tenth of a penny now: https://tokentool.bitbond.com/gas-price/base

The issue is getting people to actually get over the hump of deciding to send money to someone.

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1. tim333 ◴[25 Jun 25 12:21 UTC] No.44376450[source]▶
I wouldn't mind sending 10c or some such but have never in ~30 years of internet use been offered that. It's all "sign up now for $1/month! (smallprint: after first month it's $29/mo billed annually up from and a pain to cancel)"