I feel like this kind of tech can solve the news problem. So many paywalls. Imagine they don’t exist and your impression costs a few cents. I’d prefer this to massive lawyer grade cookie popup wizards and monthly memberships. My MiL is a writer at a large newspaper in Kentucky and it’s wild how much she is pressured to share her stories and gain sign ups from her referral links. Pay per view solves this.
There is still going to be some popups or similar; how else would a user agree to payment?
With no popup but automatic non-user-approved payment, I'm going to set up 5 million pages, filled with AI generated content, and just wait for the money to roll in.
No matter how you slice it, user approval is required per microtransaction. For an AI bot it's no easier - they will exhaust their funds on my SEO pages in due course anyway.
Microtransactions made sense in the age where content production was gated by human effort and time. Now that I can effectively churn out millions of pages in a week, microtransactions make no sense.
