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This seems like one of those ideas that's great in theory but not in practice. I don't care about paying or even being paid when browsing the web...I just want to be left alone.

Also this particular implementation is rather shady.

See podcast:

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/francis-pouliot-on-th...

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I frequently find myself confronted by paywalls and demands that I turn off my ad blocker. I can usually find a way around it, but things would be so much simpler if I could just click a button to pay the site a fraction of a penny.

That’s a neat idea. Could be a YC startup idea. A subscription service that gives you access to all the paywall content let’s say 10/month for 50 articles and you don’t even click a button just read. Rather than seperate paywalls, ads etc.

Are you describing Blendle[0]? Access to paywalled content on a pay-per-article basis.

[0] https://launch.blendle.com/

I didn't know about them, but looks like they are doing exactly this.

I remember getting on their beta list 3 years ago. Seems like they're still in beta...that cannot be a good sign.

From what I remember, they're a closed platform. One must use their apps to get access to full article content. That's a nice solution for their partners, but not for the broader web (85%+ of the websites you stumble across that are not TIME, NYT, Economist, etc).

Blendle is a nice experiment, but I wouldn't consider it a solution to the problem being discussed here.

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