Comment by poisonfountain
3 days ago
Cloudflare is trying to push for that, but every time it's mentioned people complain (because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha) and nobody proposes an alternative solution. I don't think this is going to happen, unfortunately, and the internet will get silo-ed into oblivion.
People don't hate micropayments because it's Cloudflare promoting them, it's because it truly is a shit idea, for many reasons.
People would equally reject Netflix, if Netflix fooated the idea of replacing the subscription model with pay-per-view micropayments.
> ...nobody proposes an alternative solution
Such is the human condition - some problems simply have no satisfactory solutions.
> People would equally reject Netflix, if Netflix fooated the idea of replacing the subscription model with pay-per-view micropayments.
You sure about that?
Something like over half of Netflix viewers believe their subscription isn't justified by how much they watch or else they aren't sure of it. Less than half believe the subscription cost is justified.
Whether a PPV model would actually be cheaper for the first half is a good question, but it is possible. Certainly, in my case, I do not watch $20 worth of content on Netflix a month. I would gladly take PPV.
I'm absolutely the opposite. I'd do a reasonable pay per view on Netflix, but I don't want 73 different streaming subscriptions draining my account every month.
> I'd do a reasonable pay per view on Netflix
You know it's not going to be reasonable because Netflix management wants to show continued profit growth, ad infinitum.
Streaming micropayments will likely include dynamic pricing, timed availability, $0.99 pilots and $20 season finales, doubled pricing when you choose the ad-free option, , "membership fees" that are a subscription in disguise, among other terrible (for the consumer) tactics.
The pricing model is just one small component of the picture, and it cannot fix systemic problems with the studio model, consolidation, chasing infinite growth, and IP law.
I do rent movies on Apple TV or Google Play for $4 rather than pay Netflix $20/mo for a smaller collection of movies.
I would never watch 6 movies in a month, and the selection with Netflix sucks by comparison to what is available when renting.
The subscription services are only a good deal if you binge them
I would gladly pay $4 to not have to watch twenty-seven ads before the main fight in an MMA match
If perfect information and perfect competition were attainable, the free hand of the market would deliver such a service to you. Since it's not, you'll have to bear the dudewipes ads.
> because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha
Why does it work like that anyway? Every time I open a page on some sites, their vexing box shows up to waste my time. Five minutes later I want a different page on the same site and it does the same thing. They can't do it once and cache the result?
My issue with cloudflare is that if I run a VPN it randomly just locks up. Coin toss I can get through if I am routing thorough another country.