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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Thank you. In an age where every single company is trying to wring $5-10/month out of you, sorry, I don't have the budget to subscribe to 10 different news wires. Now if we had a system of 25-50 cents an article, maybe even $1, that would be an entirety different story. I don't give two shits about sports analysis, what's happening on Broadway in NYC, or celebrity gossip. I read my news a la carte. The only exception is my town's weekly local newspaper, which I buy for $1 at the hardware store.
Chrome is looking into adding a website payment system, where you could have a refillable "tip jar", and when you visit websites with paywalls they could pop up with the cost for that specific article. Hit yes, it deducts that from your tip jar, and you read the article.
There are some similarities to a system that Brave browser already uses, except you generally earn money for brave's version by allowing the browser to show you ads (although I'm pretty sure you can buy the credits directly too). Either way, the internet is moving towards needing to pay for content, and trying to find more convenient ways for users to do that.