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		silentsea90 on Feb 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2... I get privacy concerns and hate for ads, but what about "free" internet? Paywalls are a massive annoyance to me personally, and if ads were legislatively blocked, would I have to pay for each website I visit that previously relied on ads for $? Perhaps we could be making micro-transactions for each website visited via crypto (?)

latexr on Feb 21, 2022 | [–]

Solutions for sending micro transactions to websites you visit have existed for over a decade[1], no cryptocurrencies or blockchains required.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr

philihp on Feb 21, 2022 | [–]

So something like https://yalls.org?

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