<story><title>Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers</title><url>https://brave.com/blogpost_3.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Are you invested in democracy though? Without media, you don&amp;#x27;t have democracy.</text></item><item><author>bobajeff</author><text>I think we need to seriously rethink how news is done. So I&amp;#x27;m not too invested in the news media industry staying alive.</text></item><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>I think advertisers should pay me directly to show me some ads. That would incentivise them to show me just ads that have non-zero probability of succeeding.&lt;p&gt;Every user could decide, how much information about himself he shares with advertiser (even up to eyetracking with webcam if user wants) and how high he prices adspace before his eyes. Advertisers could filter out whom they would like to serve their ads based on the price and information user was willing to disclose and past success of the ads that were presented to him.&lt;p&gt;If we agree that ads are good then most targeted ads that us as much information each user is willing to share are the best ones. If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobajeff</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t count on media preserving democracy. Especially in its current form.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers</title><url>https://brave.com/blogpost_3.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Are you invested in democracy though? Without media, you don&amp;#x27;t have democracy.</text></item><item><author>bobajeff</author><text>I think we need to seriously rethink how news is done. So I&amp;#x27;m not too invested in the news media industry staying alive.</text></item><item><author>frandroid</author><text>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers.</text></item><item><author>scotty79</author><text>I think advertisers should pay me directly to show me some ads. That would incentivise them to show me just ads that have non-zero probability of succeeding.&lt;p&gt;Every user could decide, how much information about himself he shares with advertiser (even up to eyetracking with webcam if user wants) and how high he prices adspace before his eyes. Advertisers could filter out whom they would like to serve their ads based on the price and information user was willing to disclose and past success of the ads that were presented to him.&lt;p&gt;If we agree that ads are good then most targeted ads that us as much information each user is willing to share are the best ones. If we agree that ads are bad, why not just ban them altogether and replace them with one single directory of stuff and stuff providers where customer would go to when he needs some stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Afforess</author><text>Enough of the motte-and-bailey tactics. Saying &amp;#x27;No Media&amp;#x27; therefore &amp;#x27;No Democracy&amp;#x27; is incredibly disingenuous.</text></comment>