| ▲ | ta1243 a day ago |
| 10 years ago a couple of sites I occasionally viewed used "agate", which is now called Axate. https://www.axate.com/ It worked well, I loaded it with about $3 and used it a few times. Clearly not something publishers are fans of though as it's far easier to carefully select 987 partners to sell your data to. |
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| ▲ | Workaccount2 a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| The reality is that most people just want stuff free. They say stuff like they whitelist, or donate (it certainly brings lots os social praise) but if you have ever been on the other side, you know that virtually nobody does this. |
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| ▲ | rkomorn a day ago | parent [-] | | There's also a very real factor that we now consume from dozens if not hundreds of sources per month. The overhead, as a consumer, of managing any of this as actual subscriptions, transactions, or membership to some (likely multiple) sort of ecosystem would be substantial, even beyond just the money aspect. | | |
| ▲ | nemomarx a day ago | parent [-] | | It opens up room for bundling maybe? People want to pay one subscription for everything whenever possible, like Netflix originally vs now. If you could pay 10 a month for a major newspaper + YouTube + some other tech sites that could be pretty attractive. (or whatever combinations - news and sports, porn and tech, IDK) | | |
| ▲ | rkomorn a day ago | parent [-] | | Maybe. I don't know how fantastic Apple's combined subscriptions are doing. Their news one is already priced higher than that (but I guess you get a lot of news sources). |
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| ▲ | rkomorn a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I had hoped that Brave's BAT would get some kind of traction for similar use cases but it seems to be quickly going nowhere. |
