I grew up accustomed to not paying for stuff because 1) it was free 2) I had no money.<p>Now with the quality of stuff going downway spiral and my dev salary allowing me to pay, I could be potentially paying for quality content if a good, seamless micropayments standard emerged.<p>I think ideal smooth, frictionless micropayments solution could be integrated on the browser level. It is hard a problem due to UX considerations, fraud (clickjacking) etc. but imagine this:<p>There&#x27;s a UI control built-in with the browser that is a button like &#x27;pay 0.05$ for this article&#x27; (amount and some payment metadata embedded in the HTML page). The payment method is controlled somehow by the browser. On Android it caould be maybe integrated with Play Store payments, which already allows me e.g. to add a fee to my ISP phone&#x2F;internet invoice.<p>For security, the payments would not be instant, but require an interaction with a browser built-in special page that lists to whom you pay how much and make you verify&#x2F;correct it (&#x27;will pay 0.30c to NYT for this and that article and 0.15c to WSJ for that, proceed?&#x27;). You will get a notification from browser once in a while.<p>With such model it is voluntary micropayments though which may not seduce big players though.