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donatj ◴[] 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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tristramb ◴[] No.44375759[source]
Microtransactions for viewing news would just start a flood of AI generated sludge designed purely to harvest those microtransactions.
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1. Workaccount2 ◴[] No.44378242[source]
I don't know if you have noticed that the internet has been a flood of slop content for years now just to harvest ad views.

Rather than ad-blockers we could have "junk content provider" blockers.