New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone

Enabling micro payments is huge, and when combined with buyer privacy and merchant fraud protection it has the potential to finally rid us of online ads.

The concept of micro payments has been around for a while but there's been no corporate incentive to make it work since Google who controls the browser with the largest market share also has a vested interest in ads.

The idea behind micro payments is that instead of seeing ads everywhere you are asked to pay a very small amount (cents or fractions of a cent) to read an article or simply to support a website. If you agree, the payment would be very simple and instantaneous because the technology would be integrated in the browser.

It would also be possible to simply disable this feature and stop seeing any requests, or to take the middle road and automatically agree to very small payments as long as they don't add up too much or too quickly.

Finally a website without popups!

It would be amazing if you could pay in the command line. Like imagine when you appreciate a foss library and can easily make a donation. Then you can build all sorts of software on top of that.

Iirc the pirate bay guys made something like that, but only in the browser, and only for very few websites. It gives the content a like button. Periodically it then distributes money over all your likes from a preset pool of cash.

It should be as easy as cash irl.

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You may want to change the fr link to en. While the served content text is English, the page advertises its content as French. (My Firefox offers me to translate the supposedly French text to English - which is obviously unnecessary.)

• Current FR link https://taler.net/fr/news/2024-02.html
• EN link https://taler.net/en/news/2024-02.html