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Add Web Monetization Support #934

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SethFalco opened this issue May 15, 2021 · 1 comment
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Add Web Monetization Support #934

SethFalco opened this issue May 15, 2021 · 1 comment

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@SethFalco
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Could Web Monetization support be added to Notebook.ai?

The ability to transfer money has been a long-standing omission from the web platform. As a result, the web suffers from a flood of advertising and corrupt business models. Web Monetization provides an open, native, efficient, and automatic way to compensate creators, pay for API calls, and support crucial web infrastructure.
- https://webmonetization.org/

Web Monetization is a proposed standard that allows users to pay for websites as they use them.

[Proposal] Web Monetization - A new Revenue Model for the Web
- https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-revenue-model-for-the-web/3785

Currently, Web Monetization users such as Coil subscribers pay $5 a month, and any creator or website with this enabled will get compensated for our time on the content. (I'm a subscriber too!)

Some sites provide benefits for subscriptions, for example Imgur remove adverts for users with Web Monetization enabled.

To add support, you'd just have to pick an Interledger provider of your choice such as Uphold, then put your Interledger Payment Pointer in the head of the page.

<head>
  <!-- whatever other elements -->
  <meta name="monetization" content="{{INTERLEDGER_PAYMENT_POINTER}}">
</head>

And done, users of Coil are now streaming payments for every second they're on the site.

It could be worth reevaluating the billing model with this in mind, but that's at the discretion of Indent Labs. This suggestion doesn't mean that the existing billing of Notebook.ai has to change, it's just an additional stream of income that can come from users that want to support you.
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drusepth commented May 25, 2021 •
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Hey there! This is a super-cool idea. I generally hate ads so the current subscription model is basically a lesser-evil alternative, so I'm always interested in finding different/better monetization models that work better for people. I'll do some research into this and see what can be done!

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