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My issue with flattr was that you actively had to tip. It would be nice to have a service that simply divided up a monthly allowance based on time and page views.

Maybe even make it a white list service that ask at the end of the month which sites you'd like to contribute and a notification if you have not black listed a site but keep saying you don't want to contribute.

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It would be great to decentralize what is already done by Youtube Red and Spotify. I'm honestly surprised that something like that doesn't already exist. Allow sites to register against your payment service and then it keeps track of your visits and at the end of the month, shows you a report and distributes funds.

Edit: another cool facet to this idea would be that you don't have to hound end users to join, the content providers that sign up will do that for you :)

Edit round 2: looks like brave.com already does exactly this.

I'd like to see something that seamlessly ties a voting system (thumbs up/thumbs down) with a payment system and a social media aspect. Charge a dollar per thumbs up on a video, if a video has lots of thumbs ups than that means lots of people paid to say "this content is good" increasing the likelihood that it is actually good. All of the money can go to the content creator and the aggregator can make it's money with advertising.

That would be interesting. I like the idea of keeping a fixed monthly amount so you don't have to worry about upvoting things often, you just do what you always have done, and your preferences support creators accordingly.

It would also help with downvote-brigading if it cost something to vote it down.

One other self-serving post: that's the way valME.io works. [1]

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost...

Self-serving plug: I created valME.io to do exactly this. [1] It uses Bitcoin. [2] YoursNetwork also has a working prototype. [3]

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/pkqqs/the-genesis-of-v...

[2] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/

[3] https://stories.yours.org

Brave looks great, except it seems weird to make it a full fledged browser instead of simply a plugin

Yea, after further inspection it appears to be higher friction than it needs to be

Are browser plugins possible on mobile devices?

Firefox for Android allows many of the same addons as the desktop browser, such as uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, or Self-Destructing Cookies.

There is room in the market for another browser. One that is as good as Chrome but unencumbered by the conflicts of the advertising business.

That sounds like Firefox

Sounds like Firefox with Electolysis finished, all chrome extensions working on all platforms and Chrome devtools ported over.

ie. Firefox becoming more like Chrome

Ignore the dev tools (Chrome's are worse than Firefox), but add hardware video decoding and hardware compositing

Ey! I should probably check it out then, thanks

My Firefox updates for the past few years have solely consisted of checking the dev wiki inconsistently and the issue tracker each time there was a Tor browser security issue - so I'm prob missing other stuff to

That said, I can't wait for Mozilla to come back. The world needs Firefox.

I started working on a very similar concept a couple of years ago, I called it PatronPie(.com). Patrons could specify a set monthly amount they wish to spend, then divvy up the "pie" by assigning percentage-based slices to their selected recipients.

Participating recipients could have an "Add us to your PatronPie" button on their sites that would give them a small, adjustable default slice. Patrons could edit their slices and monthly amount at any time. Monetization was easy, I just transparently took a percentage of each month's transactions by having a set slice of pie permanently pre-allocated to PatronPie.

I suspended the project when I discovered how hostile credit card companies are about letting an entity move funds in this way. Obviously it's possible to get special permission, as there are companies that do it, but I lacked the time and resources to push through the hassle barrier.

Exactly this. I've been looking for this for a while, and was hoping this was the direction Medium was going to take when they changed direction.

I want my fixed monthly "internet content subscription" divided between things I read that month, with the option to veto things that turned out to be clickbait and to allocate more to articles that I found exceptionally valuable.

"The two companies were already working together on a project initially called Flattr Plus, where users can allocate a monthly payment to online publishers. The money is then distributed based on users’ engagement with different sites and articles."

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