as silly as it sounds, not everyone has money to spend on information. ads fund the web so information can be free and accessible. same thing with TV and pretty much any other "free" content. 

the reason I like the "slice" model is users can at least get some money for their troubles of seeing ads... that money can then be spent with publishers. to your point, i definitely envision a world where publishers have micropaywalls powered by LN, but before we see mass adoption, we need users to have LN wallets with funds in them.

slice could provide the means to get people to start earning their first sats, which could in turn start to power the publisher micropaywall model.

Produce content that people want to pay for. Make it completely seamless and cheap to pay for that content. LN allows for that.

I mean, we're literally using a website where we pay 1 sat to reply. That helps fund this website, doesn't it?

decentmoney2009

how do you envision publishers should monetize their content?

lawndough

bitcoin

Introducing Slice – Earn Bitcoin when browsing the web

Better than how ads currently work, but my ultimate goal is to eliminate ads, not see more of them... even if I get paid for seeing them.