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Maybe mini-payments would be better than micro-payments, so long as there's a good it-just-works technology for doing them that minimizes user interaction.

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The history of the web is littered with the corpses of tipping companies because almost no one wants to tip on the web.

Same for micropayments. No one wants to think about if they should pay for an article even if it is only 1c.

I think it is littered with the corpses of tipping companies because no one wants to jump through hoops to use a proprietary tipping service. But if you go with pay pal, you can get tips:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...

maybey you could have a default .01$ for all sites that are using the micropayment platform (somthing like a discus plugin), and then the option to give more if you really like. so you don't actaully need to think about it most of the time

I still have to decide if I want to pay $0.01 just to visit a page. For every page I want to open I have to go through the mental process of "Is this page worth $0.01?". And it is that cost which is why micropayments like that always fail.

That actually can work:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...

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