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Security Flaws in the WebMonetization Site

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Web Monetization The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.

I've written before about the nascent WebMonetization Standard. It is a proposal which allows websites to ask users for passive payments when they visit. A visitor to this site could, if this standard is widely adopted, opt to send me cash for my very fine blog posts. All I need to do is add something like this into my site's source code: <link rel="monetization"…

How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud

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Web Monetization The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.

There's a new Web Standard in town! Meet WebMonetization - it aims to be a low effort way to help users passively pay website owners. The pitch is simple. A website owner places a single new line in their HTML's <head> - something like this: <link rel="monetization" href="https://wallet.example.com/edent" /> That address is a "Payment Pointer". As a user browses the web, their browser takes …