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Comment by jokoon | Hacker News Reader

It really seems that online privacy will trigger some sort of second internet bubble. There is soooo much money involved with online advertising, but it's not popular among consumers, so it seems that something is going to break in this business model.

One technical solution would be to decentralize internet even more, but it's pretty complex to do.

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I'm still convinced that the internet would benefit from a standard for (micro)payments straight from the browser, without all the friction that comes with current online payments. "Read this article, pay €0.05 [OK] [Cancel]".

And for everything else, I really wish we would go back to smaller websites which are run out of a desire to share. I don't get why every blog has to have ads and affiliate links. Web hosting is cheaper than dirt in 2021. I colocated a server out of my allowance when I was 13, simply because I had a desire to share some of the things I was tinkering with. If you can't afford the €1/month it costs to host something in 2021, maybe you just shouldn't.

I suspect the answer will be paying a bit more for internet and having ISPs forward that fee onto websites.

You do realize that your answer is based on the premise that your ISP knows what and when are you visiting and the duration of that, right?

I mean for websites to get paid at all this has to be the case. It could by your browser, os, whatever.

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