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They tried:

>For instance, a site like Oxford Reference can charge between 25 to 99 cents for access to a single page of content

I want something entirely different. I want to pay what google makes on me watching ads (or 2x that, I don't care), and distribute that to people creating content I watch without me interfering on that process. Essentially, what happens when I listen to music on Spotify.




You need to not only pay Google’s cut, you need to pay what the publisher makes. Then it has to be multiplied to make up for the people who do not opt in to the system. Just a rough guess, you might be looking at several thousand dollars per year per participant depending on what the ad value of the content was.

To make it a mandatory system is a whole other issue.




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