Google already offers something like this with Google Contributor. You load a fixed amount onto your ad-free pass, select which publishers you want to browse ad-free who have opted-in, and it will deduct a small amount (typically 1 - 4c) for each webpage you view ad-free.
The catch is, publishers don't seem to be signing up, presumably because they're making far more than 4c / pageview by showing ads to you. The publishers I added seem to have all abandoned the program long ago. I've been a member for over a year and have still only spent 6c.
We really need some form of frictionless micropayment system that goes directly to the publishers.
I would gladly pay for ad-free web content (for example, NYT and WSJ) if they made it possible for me to pay them via a consumption based model instead of trying to force me into an expensive yearly subscription.
Right now publishers make zero from me because I have a couple layers of ad blockers. If I'm willing to pay X for some number of ad-free articles, which does not have to be unlimited, then publishers would be making X dollars more.
Yup. That's why I don't pay for HBO, so I totally get it. If they want to make it $2, at least they'd get something from me. Until then, there's always Putlocker. Their loss, really.
The catch is, publishers don't seem to be signing up, presumably because they're making far more than 4c / pageview by showing ads to you. The publishers I added seem to have all abandoned the program long ago. I've been a member for over a year and have still only spent 6c.
https://contributor.google.com/