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I'd like to see a browser plugin that does something similar. I fill it up with a small balance of bitcoins, and it automatically pays websites when I visit.

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This fits your description

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/protip-peer-to-pee...

Close! I don't use Chrome.

This needs to be more common. I'd put in a not unreasonable amount of money (~20$) monthly to automatically pay to the sites I regularly visit. Need this for firefox, stat!

One thing that prevents me from wanting to use this is that it just looks for bitcoin addresses on the page. If joe bloe posts on reddit begging for money with his bitcoin address, I don't want to automagically send him some.

I don't really care about the bitcoin TBH. There needs to be a technology to pay the publishers directly a cut for my '% time viewed', the technology matters less to me.

Perhaps Google contributor et al. could implement paying publishers based on '% of total time spent on the site' metric.

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