there's a couple of columns i love on salon.com. the last time i went to visit i got this - https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/salon-disable-ad-blocker-or-let-us-mine-cryptocurrency-monero.html

instead of micro payments to content providers, the future could well be micro mining. to me at least that's a much, much better system for the content providers to monetise.

the idea of micro payments, especially only for readable content, has always seemed hopelessly naive to me. people simply won't do it. even if they don't mind paying, they do mind the time it takes to click around and there still isn't a realistic way of doing it yet anyway. they will however probably not care about what their cpu is doing in the background while they're on the site.

does something like this bother you or inspire you?