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My opinion is that websites should be supported entirely by donations. Websites that provide something useful and worthwhile to users will survive, and websites that only try to drive clicks will die.

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This is much like the current BAT model on Brave. Although it is also as based as a way for users to gain revenue. Problem is what would entice a large enough population to donate? Aside from charitable causes and tier systems.

I can point you to videos that are valuable but only get few thousand views whereas click bait videos get millions of videos.

Running entirely on donation is not a viable route.

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