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 Allow the user to set a minimum payout. Second create a system that scrapes these advertisers. You know who they are sending the 1 sat payments & spamming advertisements on a massive scale inevitably. Create a fee for advertisers that goes directly to the sender in addition to their 1sat.

I was wondering why I kept seeing more news & ads on here. Even if you block them they have multiple bots generating new keys spamming up relays & other places. You can't stop them unless you pose a high fee for advertising.

I understand it's a business & this may be an incentive for WoS to do nothing because they collect on all the fees. But don't we want to get away from advertisers & it's spam of centralized news it just seems to be another method to centralize the decentralized? At least create us the opportunity to not be taken advantage of so individuals will feel a mutual benefit.

A high fee for advertisers of course are gonna boo me for saying this & say nay for this but understand why. 1 This will make the advertisers fluctuate not to bombard crap everywhere draining the poor batteries of all the mobile users of nostr so more selective pickings of ads. 2 Since it's easier to figure out who the advertisers are rather then block them out this will balance out the mutual benefit of both parties; the advertisers still get to spam but the payouts they make will be bigger to the viewers.

As of current this is cheaper then centralized advertising on facebook or any other site where you can pay to advertise. As #nostr is growing I imagine every advertising fanatic, company, & ad bot makers are drooling looking at nostr because of how dirt cheap it is to pay to advertise & the mass they can reach out to for almost nothing. This is like the historical great gold rush for advertisers because not only do they have a bigger outreach but now they can raise their prices more because they know they can reach more people here then anywhere else.

I & many others use adblocks to avoid all of this but on nostr we must make effort because these are not built in ads. It's up to Wallet of Satoshi to help in the balance in order to make everyone happy. It's important to always remember bitcoins etherium all these cryptocurrencies are to get away from centralization & online advertising is just that.

If i'm gonna be bombarded with ads from thousands of generated npubs & can't stop it at least let me get more then 1sat every 14 hours per 5k ads.