Any way to reduce password requests?

Whenever I buy content on my iPad I am required to type my password. For better or worse, my password is secure, meaning it's a pain to type with all the shifting and numbers, etc. And I am annoyed having to type it all the time.
I know it's a "security feature" that a lot of people would want, but I don't, and I want to reduce the frequency. Like once a day would be fine with me.
Is there any way to adjust - or opt out of being asked for my password EVERY time I buy a song, app or movie?

Well, one way is to combine all of your purchasing & updating into one session. Or put it in Notes, either partial or buried inside a whole lot of padding, or both, then C&P it out for use.
Generate a random alphanumeric string, as long as you like,
AhJuN67$forstMbMnMlko897$uy6sdvvcn87$n&uBGCMk ..... And etc, over many lines ...?..
Insert yours into the middle somewhere. If it's strong you will recognize it and pull it out, but no one else ever will. That note will simply appear to be a corrupt file.
OTOH, if NSA is after you then better safe than sorry ......

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Believe me, I was very aware that this was a phone with a camera attached, not a dedicated camera, before I bought it. I went into this with my eyes open. I knew the lens, imaging chip, zoom, etc, would all be grossly inferior, but given all of this, surely the phone manufacturers should help to compensate for this by adding a few lines of code to the software to reduce (or ideally remove) the JPEG compression, or at least give the user the option to do so if they want? The fierce compression just makes images obtained with compromised hardware even worse than they would have been otherwise.
It adds insult to injury and is totally unnecessary, especially given that the memory card in the 6200 classic is 1GB but the one in my Olympus is only 128 MB! It's not as if lack of storage space is an issue! On the Olympus I can only take about 8 pictures without compression (although I could obviously buy a much larger memory card). On the 6220 classic, given the ridiculous amount of compression, there's room for over 1200 photos! It would be far better to let 70 uncompressed images be stored than 1200 compressed ones. Does anyone seriously need to take over a thousand photos on a camera phone without having access to a computer to offload them? I doubt it.
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