And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen four digits. That was a “lol no”.
Websites have to pay their bills. Ads, subscriptions or microtransactions; take your pick.
The one way I can think of that would retain the anonymous character of the internet would be HTTP microtransactions by some kind of crypto. Hopefully one of the non-wasteful ones, so not Bitcoin.
I think what you’re describing at the end there is basically what Brave (browser) tried to do.
Huh, I missed that. Yep, they were using Bitcoin back before it was fully a circlejerk, looks like, which is reasonable. Now I just know it as a Chrome spinoff that pretends to be private, haha.
It looks like Chrome’s trying to do something similar, although there’s a high chance Google will attempt a walled garden version.
“Web Monetization” is the keyword. It could be great for things like Lemmy, too, where hosting costs might eventually become a major obstacle.