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i'd actually love to have a script to do that on websites i own but
a) people on iOS devices have no good method of installing an adblocker, and even if they use a shitty Free AdBlocker Pro Premium HD+ Browser they still can't change the default browser from safari
b) any scripts that are designed to check for adblockers will be worked around by said adblockers
it'd genuinely be pretty cool if you could like, set up a thing where instead of loading ads on a site you like, you could opt in to a thing where they just charge you $0.001 every time you open a webpage
ads generally give a lot less than that per page view, and you get to opt in and support the people you care about with whitelisting YOU WILL CUM IN 0.1 SECONDS
the only problem is, there's no way to charge such a small amount yet besides cryptocurrency and there's also no way to tell what the website considers a page view and for them to "accidentally" count every single asset loaded as a page view
i actually was kind of cautiously interested when the first javascript crypto miners came about, i thought "oh hey maybe we'll have a way to make revenue from visits without ads"
and then it turns out that cryptominers are horrendously inefficient and kill performance and every website that uses them doesn't bother to throttle their performance at all and they never bother to say "stop after mining X amount" and to be honest i really should have known that it was going to turn out awful as soon as the word "cryptocurrency" was involved
what if like,, you could put $10/month into an Internet Content Budget, and whenever you browsed a website that was compatible with the budget thing, you could add it to your list of sites you want to support
then at the end of the month, it calculates which sites you used the most and divvies it up accordingly
for example you could add your masto instance and a few blogs you liked, and then if you spent 80% of your time on the masto instance, it would automatically send 80% of $10 to the instance
you don't need to bother calculating revenues and shit, you just put in $10 and pick which websites you think are worth supporting, and you get a monthly "browsing report" and stuff
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@lynnesbian hmm this is basically what Brave browser promised except everything about their project is garbage lol
@f0x anything involving "basic attention tokens" and replacing ads with Our Totally Good Ads That Won't Track You No For Real I Promise is automatically a bad idea