Tipsy, a Simple Chrome Extension, Bets on Readers Who Want to Pay a Little for the Content They Consume

If you could set up recurring donations to your favorite and most-frequented news sites, of your own accord and in amount of your own choosing, would you do it?

David Karger hopes to tap people’s more charitable natures with Tipsy, a free browser extension that records how much time you spend on any given site and then divvies up a chunk of change — which you can predetermine and tweak at any time — based on proportional time spent.