Is Google about to destroy the web?
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Unpopular opinion: The missing business model for websites is killing the web. If there was a platform that would distribute a monthly fee to the websites we visit, the web would be much better.
50% could be allocated through traffic, 50% by choice. I could pay 20€ a month for example. Some would go to lemmy, some to my local newspaper, some to my favorite YouTube channels, authors or bloggers.
If enough people did this, investigative journalism would be funded, product testers wouldn't be reliant on sponsoring and hobbyists could gain serious funding without selling out.
Sounds like you want to nationalise the internet and all its services.
If only we could pay for a worthwhile internet via taxes.
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mostly shit already. ymmv
I recommend Kagi. It is a search engine with absolutely no tracking or ads, AI slop filter, an in-house index and a cute doggo. It's a paid search engine (which means you pay with money not with data), but you can give it a try with 300 free searches with no strings attached.
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More time per click is such a useless metric for the end user.
I could spend a lot of time sifting through ads, nag screens and bullshit to find the actual detail I want on a webpage.
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Where do monopolies get their money?
From the consumers of necessary services that they have wholly captured...?
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Beep boop butthurt.
Good bot
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mostly shit already. ymmv
peak internet; https://jpbtlorgy.ytmnd.com/
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From the consumers of necessary services that they have wholly captured...?
I dont believe they are necessary or failing that are not available elsewhere, and i would call captured, handed to.
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Sounds like you want to nationalise the internet and all its services.
If only we could pay for a worthwhile internet via taxes.
All it would take would be a platform that handles the payment and supplies a tracking pixel. Websites could join and become part of it. At the moment, every single publisher has their own payment solution. If I want to read one local article from Houston today and one from Tokyo tomorrow, I won't join two payment plans. I want them to be paid automatically, like when I play a song on Spotify or watch a video on YouTube. Just a decent amount of money instead of paying mostly middlemen.
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Someone posted this the other day: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/
I really liked the idea so I quickly made my personal site and put it on the indie webring. It's a tiny community but it's there.
its neat, but its not the same. old internet was more than a thing. it was an era.
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May I introduce you to https://webmonetization.org/ ?
Very interesting. I hope this passes as an actual Standart. I looked around but couldn't find information on how to enable it in the Webbrowser. It just says firefox is not supported.
Nevermind I found the extension will try it again.
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Very interesting. I hope this passes as an actual Standart. I looked around but couldn't find information on how to enable it in the Webbrowser. It just says firefox is not supported.
Nevermind I found the extension will try it again.
On Firefox (my default browser everywhere it's available) I use the Coil extension but seems it's now called InterLedger (Wallet) cf https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-monetization-extension/
If you go on my web site https://fabien.benetou.fr/ you should see 3 hearts under the 3D model if it's enabled.
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I could spend a lot of time sifting through ads, nag screens and bullshit to find the actual detail I want on a webpage.
Or validating source, making sure it isn't AI content which usually regurgitates the same talking points. Homogenizing the entire query and removing actual information variance of personal experience.
