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> You can't charge money on each and every site, it makes no sense for eg. a blog and even if it did - transaction fees would make it infeasible.

That's a pretty clear sign your content isn't as valuable as you think.

> A blog still costs money to run/host, it has to get paid somehow.

Hosting a blog is very, very cheap (aka free), unless you're getting tons and tons of traffic, which you're probably not. And even if you specifically are, the majority of people aren't.

Monetizing a personal blog is kinda lame anyway.

> Ads are basically a bad implementation of micropayments that the internet seriously needs.

No they're not. You can't just change the definition to make it seem less sleazy.



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