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by Smoosh 892 days ago
I remember when micropayments for sites or individual pages were deemed too expensive to implement due to the cost and complexity of splitting access into tiny pieces and tracking them. Yet here we are with sites sharing their users with hundreds of other companies.
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Because being spied on is for "free", but micro payment is still payment. Add least on the surface.

If you think that consumers pay all the ad serving, with >99% of the resources wasted because users ignore the ads, in the end we are paying more at the moment and we have the annoyance.