Effectively, this is a "one subscription that works everywhere" value proposition for consumers, using collective bargaining power to keep the price reasonable.
The problem with focusing on money is that you're trying to convince users to go from "free, paid for with data" to "actually costs money, paid for with actual money", and that is never going to sound like a good deal to someone who doesn't really value either the content they see enough to support it or their privacy enough to avoid ad tracking.
In my opinion the only way for micro-payments and subscriptions to work will be if there's another reason to use them besides simply paying for content. Unlocking exclusive stuff is the obvious one, but I imagine there are others.
Hi HN!
A bit of additional info about Adless:- Currently it’s just me and I’ve and bootstrapped Adless to this point over the last months.
- It’s not crypto. Adless is about finding a more consumer-friendly solution to the problem of Internet monetization, not experimenting with new technologies. My stance is that implementation details can change later if we find product-market fit and decide that a crypto-based solution offer an overall superior technology for the problem.
- Instead of focusing on privacy-by-technology, the focus is on achieving privacy-by-policy and ultimately privacy-by-business-model.
- I have long wanted to explore this problem because I hate how ads manipulate me (and in particular my child) but I also do not particularly enjoy what stand-alone subscriptions are doing in terms of accessibility of content (+ there is no chance I’m making that many subscriptions). And with concepts like “metaverse” being pushed, I think it is more urgent than ever to explore alternatives to ads (and generally data-dependent revenue models) as the primary way of financing the decentralized Internet.
- The typical subscription sales channel will be via content creator partners websites, so you will not find a strong consumer-focused sales channel directly on adless.net, although you can obviously subscribe from there.