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Will Cloudflare customers on the free tier get non-JS Web Traffic Analytics? The blog post only mentions Pro+ tier accounts and non-Cloudflare customers.

jeremiahleeon Won’t Subscribe

I think the Web Monetization API currently incubating as a proposed W3C standard would provide the experience you are desiring.

Consumers establish a wallet provider and install a browser extension (for now, until the standard is formally adopted). When a Web Monetization HTML tag is encountered, the browser starts streaming micropayments every second while you are engaging with the content.

Content creators can then do things like grant access/remove the paywall, not load/remove ads, or offer bonus features.

Today, GQ, Wired, and ~1,000 other sites are experimenting with the Web Monetization API. The only wallet provider right now is Coil, but the protocol is well defined and ready for other players.

References: - https://webmonetization.org/ - https://coil.com/ - https://mobile.twitter.com/WebMotized

jeremiahleeon Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes

My understanding is that rights holders are paid by the percentage of all plays, not per play.

Deezer is trying to fix this, but it requires the major labels to agree to the change. Deezer's user-centric payment system would apportion royalties based on an individual customer's play percentage instead of the total customer base's percentage. So if you only listen to 5 artists, all of your subscription's royalties would go to those 5 artists.

More info on UCPS at https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/deezer-launches-initia... and https://www.deezer.com/ucps

jeremiahleeon 179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown

Let the record show the FBI just proved that the FBI does not need to circumvent encryption or a backdoor in order to catch criminals. Great!

jeremiahleeon Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes

70% of Spotify's revenue goes to rights holders. That's not ripping off artists. Streaming royalties have been the largest segment of music rights holder revenue for several years.

The record labels negotiated these deals and had all of the power. Also, all music streaming services have effectively the same deals. Spotify does not have preferential treatment.

Artists can distribute their music without Spotify. Spotify cannot distribute its app to iOS users without Apple.

jeremiahleeon Total number of Brave Browser Publishers

I don’t earn much from either, but I’ve earned about twice as much from Brave as I have from Coil.

I support the open Web Monetization standard more, so I hope more publishers add a tag. https://coil.com/creator

jeremiahleeon Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf

Specifically, loadProto in https://www.icloud.com/applications/notes3/2017Project42/en-... looks promising.

jeremiahleeon Show HN: My contact form for deleting Facebook

Thank you for the kind note!

jeremiahleeon Why are currently no ads on Techdirt? apparently Google thinks we're dangerous

I wish more sites would add a Web Monetization tag so that I can support them passively with my Coil subscription. They will earn more from the time I spend on their sites than from viewing the ads.

jeremiahleeon Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

jeremiahleeon Show HN: Remote jobs from leading companies (e.g., Twitter, Shopify, etc.)

Nice. Currently, almost all of the jobs are US-only, even though they are remote. It'd be great to be able to filter for EU-friendly listing.

jeremiahleeon Changes to SameSite Cookie Behavior – A Call to Action for Web Developers

Good change. It's sad that Firefox can only do these sort of changes under the cover of Safari's or Chrome's larger marketshare. I imagine they would instigate more of such changes sooner if they had a more dominant position.

jeremiahleeon Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue

Why the downvotes?

jeremiahleeon Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue

It takes two—advertisers and us using Facebook—in order for Facebook to make money. Advertisers are only on Facebook because we are on Facebook. Facebook won't change until people start leaving it.

That's why I'm leaving it on September 1. I created a special page on my website and a drip marketing campaign for my friends on Facebook: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/delete-facebook/

jeremiahleeon Move away and fix things: a guy's page about his upcoming deletion of FB profile

I'm the author. Thanks for sharing!

jeremiahleeon Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting

Good! Working as intended.

jeremiahleeon Five Buck Fatigue

I was just coming here to make this comment.

The Web Monetization standard is the solution to the problem described of wanting to support a lot of creators effortlessly. There are many creators I want to support, but don't want to deal with managing a unique subscription to them—and also don't want to support them with a minimum $5/month.

jeremiahleeon Proposing a new funding model for open source

This was something npm was actually thinking about: https://twitter.com/izs/status/755802779432562688

jeremiahleeon Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?

YouTube Video Downloader to… download videos from YouTube. I mostly used this for conference talks I wanted to queue up and watch while flying, but not traveling so much these days.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-downl...

jeremiahleeon Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?

Coil is a Web monetization provider that streams micropayments to sites with a monetization HTML tag. For $5/month, I support the sites I actually spend time with and then don't feel bad about blocking ads.

https://coil.com/ https://webmonetization.org/

jeremiahleeon Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?

Tab Tosser automatically closes tabs I have ignored for too long to free myself of digital clutter (with some safety features).

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/tab-tosser/

Admittedly, I made it, but other people seem to enjoy it and Apple thought it was such a great idea that it later built the functionality into Safari.

jeremiahleeon Openness and security: a balancing act for the add-ons ecosystem

I would happily be required to donate to Mozilla in order to have my Firefox extensions reviewed to get "Recommended". I don't want or need the promotion of my extension. I just want the scary "NOT RECOMMENDED!" warnings to go away.

It seems like the only way to get "Recommended" today is to be suuuper popular.

jeremiahleeon Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams

This is similar to my experience at Spotify, where I had similar takeaways: https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/

jeremiahleeon Usability of Footnotes

Nice to see Coil icon light up. The author just earned $0.02 from me because of their Web Monetization tag.

jeremiahleeon Ubuntu Web is an upcoming Firefox-based web OS to rival Chrome OS

This is exciting. Something I have wanted to work on myself for a long time. I hope Ubuntu Web’s UX is influenced more by Jolicloud Joli OS and Palm webOS than Chrome OS. Chrome OS always seemed like such a disappointment after using the other Web-centric OSes.