IMO, it looks like price negotiation is not something websites should do, so we need other ways to satisfy needs of content creators. Some alternatives/workarounds we've have considered about non-fixed payment stream rate:
Allow user to give one-time tip to websites (the websites won't probably ask this via some API, but through some in-content message, leaving the decisions to users).
Browsers would allow user to configure weights for each site (pay this site more/less).
Based on various inputs like visit count, visit duration etc., providers/WM agents can also adjust payment rates.
Personally, I see WM as an alternative to ads, and not subscriptions. Websites don't ask users to click an ad N times to reach an acceptable amount of money, so I think its fair that websites don't set a rate for WM. Though, the idea of consent-less micropayments needs more exploration.
Yeah, it's a challenge to find the correct solution (if there is a solution anyway)...
I really like the consent-less idea behind WM. That's what we tried to keep in our suggestion.
One-time tipping is already possible via other ways, although it probably could be improved to make the bar lower. I'm curious if this would work for a content creator to have a sort of stable revenue.
I think the challenge with setting weight/rate by user/provider is, that they don't know the costs for a content creator. For example the costs for a 'simple' blogpost compared to the results of an extensive investigation might look the same in terms of length, visitors, etc.. but an extensive investigation might cost 10 times more to create. If the content creator wants to continue making those investigations, it should earn enough.
I could see WM as an alternative to some subscriptions, I'm then thinking about newsarticles. I find it very frustrating that I can't read/buy a single article. I'm not going to take a subscription on all newspapers... An alternative might be to have a wallet in your browser, so it could be very easy to pay the content creator. But then you have a consent back again...
What I don't know is what websites nowadays earn via ads and if WM is actually in terms of the current payment rate an alternative to ads.
I'll keep thinking about this.. if any idea pops up I'll share it
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IMO, it looks like price negotiation is not something websites should do, so we need other ways to satisfy needs of content creators. Some alternatives/workarounds we've have considered about non-fixed payment stream rate:
Personally, I see WM as an alternative to ads, and not subscriptions. Websites don't ask users to click an ad N times to reach an acceptable amount of money, so I think its fair that websites don't set a rate for WM. Though, the idea of consent-less micropayments needs more exploration.
Yeah, it's a challenge to find the correct solution (if there is a solution anyway)...
I really like the consent-less idea behind WM. That's what we tried to keep in our suggestion.
One-time tipping is already possible via other ways, although it probably could be improved to make the bar lower. I'm curious if this would work for a content creator to have a sort of stable revenue.
I think the challenge with setting weight/rate by user/provider is, that they don't know the costs for a content creator. For example the costs for a 'simple' blogpost compared to the results of an extensive investigation might look the same in terms of length, visitors, etc.. but an extensive investigation might cost 10 times more to create. If the content creator wants to continue making those investigations, it should earn enough.
I could see WM as an alternative to some subscriptions, I'm then thinking about newsarticles. I find it very frustrating that I can't read/buy a single article. I'm not going to take a subscription on all newspapers... An alternative might be to have a wallet in your browser, so it could be very easy to pay the content creator. But then you have a consent back again...
What I don't know is what websites nowadays earn via ads and if WM is actually in terms of the current payment rate an alternative to ads.
I'll keep thinking about this.. if any idea pops up I'll share it