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Somebody really needs to make a startup where, when you visit a page, you can either view ads, or opt out by paying a really teeny tiny amount of money. (And where you can set it to "always opt out and just pay for my damned content.") Problem? You can't really charge people tiny fractions of a cent effectively. Solution? Bit... wait for it... coin.
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Unfortunately for PA, their content is probably 90% games/pop culture topical. After a month it'd be completely stale and irrelevant (with exceptions of course). I think the better move would be to have pay users not have to see any ads. Simple web re-design to remove that for pay users, otherwise free users still have to look at the ads. There are a ton of sites that do this and are quite successful.
What's a site that only offers "no ads" as their paid-upgrade benefit? I haven't seen one offer just that, it usually comes with a grab-bag of other features that can't be replaced with a client-side script/extension. (DeviantArt's premium account is the upgrade I thought of. ( http://sta.sh/047k5sokcr2 ) The two major client-side features of no ads and more thumbnails are solved with NoScript and AutoPager respectiv…
Somebody really needs to make a startup where, when you visit a page, you can either view ads, or opt out by paying a really teeny tiny amount of money. (And where you can set it to "always opt out and just pay for my damned content.") Problem? You can't really charge people tiny fractions of a cent effectively. Solution? Bit... wait for it... coin.
Does that then make somebody with an ad blocker a thief? Because I don't like the sound of that at all.
Somebody really needs to make a startup where, when you visit a page, you can either view ads, or opt out by paying a really teeny tiny amount of money. (And where you can set it to "always opt out and just pay for my damned content.") Problem? You can't really charge people tiny fractions of a cent effectively. Solution? Bit... wait for it... coin.
Does that then make somebody with an ad blocker a thief? Because I don't like the sound of that at all.
I don't understand what is wrong with advertisement? Nobody pays attention to them anyway, so WTF?
(While I am anti-AdBlocking software, that is a conversation for another time.)
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That's precisely the distinction that Kickstarter claims to be making, though: they'll fund new projects, but not ongoing business expenses.
They said they won't fund life expenses. That's a bit different. Though it is a somewhat fuzzy distinction to be making.
This is interesting territory for Kickstarter. They've been clear throughout that they'd like to fund specific, time-limited projects, e.g. someone producing a book, and don't allow general fundraising to operate a business, e.g. raising funds to pay a year of salaries and rent for an ongoing business. There's a way you can squint and call this a specific project, a time-limited "remove ads from PA for a year" experi…
As I understand the process, applications on Kickstarter go through a screening period that can take weeks. You're right that this "project" is on the borderline of the site's intended use, but I think if they didn't judge it appropriate we'd never have even known it existed.