[seanwilson]

Half-baked thoughts here, but the way I thought of it is you'd "top-up" your browser with say $10 a month and it would be distributed to sites you've viewed or chosen to donate to. There's obvious questions with privacy though and sites trying to game the system if it's view count based. I think most people wouldn't be against a small monthly payment to avoid seeing ads but you'd need to do it in a way that was simple and transparent that didn't require lots of work per site.

[viraptor]

The distribution system you're describing is: https://flattr.com/

[Torn]

Brave Browser & Basic Attention Token (BAT) seems to have more traction: https://brave.com/creators/

[jnordwick]

Nobody wants to have am account you have to top up. You need to plan ahead, there would be multiple systems not completely overlapping (or some sites being cheaper with a specific billing company), and a myriad of other reasons. You would need to sequester multiple monies, and some you might ever use like having $3.12 left on a gift card, but multiple cards.

[infogulch]

This is the Flattr model https://flattr.com/ that they recently moved to. I wish they moved to this model years ago, but I guess it was too soon for the time.

[tepmoc]

https://github.com/priestc/Autotip

was nice back in days when fee was low

[wmf]

Check out the Brave browser and Google Contributor.