Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit

Re:Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit by jujugoboom on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:35PM (#45852603)

This is the first time I've heard of this standard and it looks interesting, but it doesn't seem like the payment processing is well standardized. I see in the W3C draft that the "Interledger Protocol" should be utilized, but looking at the wallet limitations (https://webmonetization.org/wallets/#limitations) it seems like there are no wallets that allow cross-wallet payments. Is that something thats planned in the future, or will wallets be allowed to lock down who can pay who?

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Re:Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit by AdieuToLogic on Friday November 07, 2025 @10:44PM (#45853949)

This is not a "standard." From their documentation[0]:

  Browsers already know how to interpret certain rel
  values because of web standards.

  ...

  The monetization link type, however, isn’t a standard yet.

And nothing about the "Web Monetization" primary intent[1] is appealing as a standard worthy of being adopted:

  Web Monetization gives publishers more revenue options ...

0 - https://webmonetization.org/developers/link-element-webpage/...

1 - https://webmonetization.org/

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