[justcommenting]

this was fascinating to watch and i'm glad mozilla is thinking about this problem, but i don't see how this is much different from flattr.

subscribe2web doesn't yet seem to solve what to me is the key part of the problem: in order for me to pay to opt out of ads, i still have to link my payment information to someone with a relationship to mozilla or some one else, and enable them to track what i read in order to distribute the funds. that's not necessarily better than google analytics and google ads...it's just different. and when it gets baked into the browser by default, it's potentially even more problematic than the status quo in certain ways.

[kybernetikos]

I suppose you want some sort of zero knowledge proof, so the browser can prove that the request is coming from a user who has paid without revealing who the user is.