{"id":221,"date":"2008-04-03T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2008\/04\/03\/passive-tip-jars\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:17:03","slug":"passive-tip-jars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2008\/04\/03\/passive-tip-jars\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive tip jars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a user of the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865\">Adblock Plus add-on<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/\">Firefox<\/a>, every time I visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\">Daily Kos<\/a> I&#8217;m asked to Subscribe! since I&#8217;m not contributing to the site by viewing ads. While I feel a bit of a freeloader, and I&#8217;d be OK with paying some nominal amount per visit, I also don&#8217;t feel particularly inclined to charge my credit card in dribs and drabs all over the Web.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of micropayments has plagued the Web since the late 1990s, and a combination of Adsense and iTunes has band-aided several aspects of the problem. But, as Doc Searls&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/projectvrm\/Main_Page\">Project VRM<\/a> asks, why are the vendors managing consumers rather than the other way around?<\/p>\n<p>I think most of us now realize that good content is rarely free, but I am not content paying for it with my &#8220;eyeballs&#8221; (and mindshare). Imagine, instead, if a plug-in like Adblock Plus replaced all your ads with a tip jar &#8212; either one that passively paid the site $.01 from your kitty with each view, or that offered you the affirmative choice to throw a few coins in the hat. Why not cut out the middleman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a user of the Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox, every time I visit the Daily Kos I&#8217;m asked to Subscribe! since I&#8217;m not contributing to the site by viewing ads. While I feel a bit of a freeloader, and I&#8217;d be OK with paying some nominal amount per visit, I also don&#8217;t feel particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}