Overview

Web Monetization allows

support your favorite web monetized publishers

support/contribute/give

privacy preserving non-intrusive

• contribute to web monetized content and creators say thank you for free content charities spend time.. or dont! not sharing with the platform no site by site subscriptions

Web monetisation is a method of monetising over the web while safeguarding your privacy, your data and even saving your time.

token of appreciation misunderstanding about the actual costs of free content on the internet.

“Why not just use Venmo?”

express your gratitude ; sign of appreciation

Benefits

Control who, when, and how much to pay.

All payments to web monetized sites must be explicitly authorized or pre-authorized by you. Sites cannot pull payments from your payment account under any circumstance.

Your payments are private.

Web Monetization does not provide the recipient with personally identifiable information such as your name, wallet address/payment pointer, IP address, or anything else the recipient could use to correlate a payment with you.

You choose your wallet provider.

Some solutions require you to sign up for a particular application, platform, or service provider to support your favorite content. As long as your chosen wallet provider is compatible with Web Monetization, you can send payments to any web monetized sites.

Your payment details are stored with your wallet.

Part of setting up the Web Monetization extension involves linking the extension to your wallet. This link allows the extension to communicate with your wallet without storing sensitive payment details in the extension or in the browser itself.

Web Monetization is not tied to a specific currency.

Part of choosing a compatible digital wallet is selecting one that allows you to pay in your preferred currency. When you send a payment, the recipient will receive it in the currency they selected when signing up with their compatible wallet provider.

There’s no separate Web Monetization account(s).

The only account you need is the one you create with your wallet provider. You don’t have to create separate accounts for each website you want to pay.

Constraints

Web Monetization is not an ad blocker.

Sending a payment to a web monetized site does not guarantee an ad-free experience. Web Monetization provides publishers an alternative revenue model to ads, but the decision to not load ads in response to a payment is entirely theirs.

The network of Web Monetization-enabled wallet providers is nascent, but growing.

Sending and receiving payments via Web Monetization requires the sender and the recipient to have an account with a Web Monetization-enabled wallet provider.

In general, wallet providers are regulated entities within the countries they operate. Obtaining the proper licensing and registration to become a wallet provider can be an expensive, complex, and time consuming process. In addition, there are technical integrations required to support Web Monetization. All of this means a compatible wallet provider may not yet be available in your area.