[flimsypremise]

Because I don't want to pay monthly for a bunch of content I probably won't read. I want to pay a small amount of money, with as little friction as possible, for the specific content I want to read now.

[dredmorbius]

Re: micropayments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261063>

[mdp2021]

Until we have anonymous electronic money, this still does not overcome the problem of privacy (it may worsen it).

"Problem of privacy" which incidentally made me very relieved to find in your article: it is nice not to be alone

> I don’t want or need entities with strong (e.g., credit-card-payment grade) proof of my identity tracking to the paragraph what I’m reading

[hakanito]

This is what I want too. Been wanting it for years.

Maybe once payments are bundled into the browser coupled with some W3 standard…

[mayneack]

You're basically describing the BAT from Brave

[0xcde4c3db]

That's been a dream for nearly as long as the web has been around. I'm pretty sure there are mailing list threads from the '90s about turning micropayments into a standardized web API. As far as I can tell, this never caught on because it's almost always more profitable to operate your own paywall scheme or payment network than to participate in someone else's (provided that you're powerful enough to get away with it).

[Terr_]

Cue wave of "micropayments" deja-vu from the 1990s.