[corobo]

> But a user might pay $9/year for all websites

Nope. Not going to happen. A HN user might, but regular user? No way in hell. Honestly I'd be surprised if you managed to win them over with $1/year or whatever the card minimum TX cost is. Even I was blindsided by it with a "wooah, whats this about" and I'm happy paying up for apps etc just to test them once. I thought I'd accidentally signed up to the website side of it

It's hard enough for Netflix to get customers to pay (account sharing) never mind a site that - from the user's point of view - does nothing

On the thought of the website side - Why would I as a website owner have my users pay your service when I could set up my own paywall and also enjoy the monetary rewards? I really feel like I've missed something here

Side note, there's also no way to delete my account

[realpeopleio]

At first maybe for most people they won't want to pay the cost. What (hopefully) will happen is that smaller sites who have problems keeping bots and fake accounts at bay will decide it's worth it to them to require all their users to use RealPerson. And then (hopefully) over time users face no additional cost using RealPerson on other sites because they already have an account.

Incidentally, this is how RealPeople.io (https://realpeople.io) is able to have no ads because the revenue from RealPerson.io subsidizes it since they're owned by the same company.

[corobo]

The way you're addressing this site is confusing, you're talking as if your username isn't "realpeopleio" - are you affiliated with the site or just registered under a confusing username?

I apologise for asking this rather than any actual followup questions but it's got me proper distracted

[realpeopleio]

Yes I am affiliated. I'm arguing why we built RealPeople.io and RealPerson.io to solve the problems listed in the article. I don't think I've tried to hide that.