How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud
CyberSecurity dns HTML standards WebMonitization · 1,000 words
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 note of all the sites they've visited. At the end of the month, the funds in the user's digital…
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