Problems like creating an online tipping protocol could be addressed with work on new web standards, not private partnerships with for-profit companies spearheaded by a single browser developer. If something like this could work, it needs to be an open standard. I appreciate Mozilla's work on this important issue, but don't think they are even starting with the right approach.
> Why should Comcast pay for peoples' hentai blogs?
It wouldn't, and this whole subthread of tipping is way off from what this article and service provider is even on about. So since we aren't actually talking about micropayment tipping, lets continue:
Having the ISP handle both the subscription and payment would be reducing and bundling a pooled monthly subscription away from consumers.
No, wrong incentive structure for ISPs. They're job is to deliver packets from point A to point B, and I want to pay them to do that well, and ditch them if they don't.
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