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>>smnrg+(OP)
This seems to focus on online advertising. The question is how would you pay for many things on the internet?

>>daedrd+C1
There must be a reason someone hasn't invented a browser plugin for microtransactions on the internet?

I'll gladly pay 25 cents to read an article from a news website, but I won't subscribe for a whole year for $25+, especially when there's dozens/hundreds of sites.

Obviously credit card transaction fees would be a problem, but that could be mitigated by depositing say $15 at a time and deducting from the balance each time.

>>SteveN+o2
This is something I explain too. I’d gladly pay maybe 10 cents for IntelliJ but it’s the Pirate Bay otherwise. Just set the pricing appropriately. It costs $0 to make a copy so it’s an infinite margin. Same with most SaaS. About 20 cents per month should be the maximum. Any more than that is gouging.

Hiring engineers is even worse. I think about $20/hr should suffice but there’s this big fuss kicked up about “they’re not willing to pay enough”.

>>renewi+q3
I mean the alternative is they get nothing from me at all once I hit their paywall..

And I don't think ad revenue is paying the bills so I'm not sure what other options there are. I just went to a few major news sites:

Wapo: $120/yr Reuters: $45/yr WSJ: $349/yr NYT: $195/yr Bloomberg: $299/yr

That's just a few. Is it better if I just choose one and only get my news from a single site? Or should it really cost thousands of dollars per year to be informed?