The Chromium team is prototyping Web Monetization, which allows websites to automatically receive small payments for content from visitors, bypassing traditional advertising and subscription models. The Register reports: Earlier this month, Alexander Surkov, a software engineer at open source consultancy Igalia, announced the Chromium team's intention to prototype Web Monetization. Web Monetization is a growing community specification that allows websites to automatically receive payments from online visitors via their web browsers rather than advertisers. and designated payment services.
“Web monetization is a web technology that allows website owners to receive small payments when users interact with their content,” Surkov said in a briefing published last summer. “It provides a way for content creators and website owners to get compensated for their work without relying solely on advertising or subscriptions. In particular, Web Monetization (WM) provides a way for content creators and website owners to get paid for their work without relying solely on advertising or subscriptions. It offers two unique features and addresses several important challenges, scenarios that are currently unmet on the web. ”
“The Open Payments API is an open HTTP-based standard created to facilitate small-value transactions on the web,” Surkov wrote. “It is implemented by a wallet and allows the movement of funds between two wallets. It leverages fine-grained permissions based on GNAP (Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol), allowing wallet owners to You can control exactly what permissions are granted to applications connected to their wallets.'' The basic idea is that web users can get digital wallets, currently offered by Gatehub and Fynbos, and web publishers can is to add a link tag to a block on your site in the following format: Site visitors who link their digital wallets to their browsers then pay out funds to the requesting publishers according to their browser's permissions policies.