We aggregate payments to publishers. I recommend you read just the material at https://brave.com/ including the FAQ and blog posts.
We strive to remove all cognitive overhead rightly decried in explicit micropayment systems. Users get a 15% revshare by default. It is used to auto-micropay their top 20 sites up to low monthly maximum or user wallet balance, whichever is smaller -- again by default. (All parameters will be adjustable, but the defaults will be tuned to drain the wallet each month unless the user intervenes.)
Users get notified in time to revoke any micropayments they don't want to make, but otherwise they don't have to think or intervene.
Your first sentence is oddly phrased, never mind pretentious and wrong. Did you give me "advice" that I ignored? I think the shoe is on the other foot.
Thanks for the response. I'm looking over Brave's pages.
A monthly cap actually makes some sense. I'm strongly partial to the knowledge as a public good argument, and would see it paid out of some sort of a general fund somehow, though getting from here (piecemeal / advertising / gratis / occasional subscriptions) to there (centralised revenues collection, some sort of content rating / pricing differential, use-tracking for author/artist compensation) seems difficult.
Amazon are doing something vaguely interesting with an all-you-can-eat monthly subscription concept. I believe O'Reilly's Safari operates similarly.
My introductory paragraph was meant to convey that I thought I'd be suggesting something probably not entirely welcome as it goes rather against the concept I'd understood Brave was based about. It apparently did so poorly, and I may be wrong, I often am.
I'd commented in an earlier HN thread where Brave was announced, though suspect you hadn't seen that. I've written a bit on content syndication and issues of information goods and market economics (they play poorly) at https://dredmorbius.reddit.com/
I'm not active in the space though I've given it a lot of thought over the past few decades.
We strive to remove all cognitive overhead rightly decried in explicit micropayment systems. Users get a 15% revshare by default. It is used to auto-micropay their top 20 sites up to low monthly maximum or user wallet balance, whichever is smaller -- again by default. (All parameters will be adjustable, but the defaults will be tuned to drain the wallet each month unless the user intervenes.)
Users get notified in time to revoke any micropayments they don't want to make, but otherwise they don't have to think or intervene.
Your first sentence is oddly phrased, never mind pretentious and wrong. Did you give me "advice" that I ignored? I think the shoe is on the other foot.