After years of going nowhere, could web micropayments be the next big enabler for user privacy? Learn more in a great Naked Security article: . The privacy angle on this has always sounded interesting: if visitors could pay websites small amounts of money for consuming content, perhaps those sites wouldn’t need to sell traffic to advertisers whose business is built on distracting, tracking and profiling visitors. Easy to aspire to, harder to make work – with a long list of commercial micropayments systems that nobody uses serving as cautionary tales. The link for this article located at Naked Security is no longer available. . Explores the potential of micropayments to enhance user confidentiality by reducing dependence on ad-based income models.. Web Monetization, User Privacy, Ad-Free Experience. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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