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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Dissolved | 2023 |
| Headquarters | Malmö, Sweden |
| Owner | Eyeo GmbH |
| Founder(s) | Peter Sunde Linus Olsson |
| Industry | Micropayments |
| URL | flattr |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
Flattr was a Swedish-based microdonation subscription service, where subscribers opted in to pay a monthly patronage to help fund their favourite websites and creators. It shut down in November 2023.[1]
Flattr subscribers installed an open-source browser extension that records which websites they frequent and shares this data with Flattr.[2] Flattr processes this user data and pays out shares of the user's subscription to each registered Flattr creator based on which websites the user consumed.[3] Flattr filtered websites by domains with a default allowlist of participating domains, but individual users could override and contribute to any website they want or withhold contributions from any website.[4]
- ^ "Flattr". Archived from the original on 9 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
Our old service is shutting down.
- ^ "Our extension is now open source!". Flattr blog. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
- ^ "The New Flattr Algorithm: How does it work?". Flattr blog. 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
- ^ "Automatically contribute to funding the web with the new Flattr extension". Ctrl blog. 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2018-04-18.