Mastodawn

Literally the only thing I want from the internet is some way to put €100 into my browser wallet and when I navigate to a paywall site they can prompt me and say “give us €.50 and we’ll show you the article without ads or a login” and I hit yes and then I read the goddamn article.

I don’t know if this is a W3C thing or a browser thing. I have no idea how to make such a thing happen. But there must be a way to pay people for stuff they put on the internet that doesn’t involve me signing up for 60 different services.

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Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲Mar 24

@matdevdug

The web standard is https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/, and the wallet (that will hopefully implement the W3 standard!) is @Taler .

Payment Request API

This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.

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matdevdug

@nik @Taler The problem with this is that you wouldn’t be able to do each one as a separate transaction because of fees. So 2.9% + $.30 would make that impossible. I think you’d end up having to layer in a ledger so that the funds were centralized in the browser and then paid out by Mozilla or Google when a threshold was met.

I love this for solving the problem of checkout though. Maybe I’m misreading how it works.

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Nik Mar 25

@matdevdug @nik @Taler Mobile telcos fumbled this badly.

They had experience billing for micro transactions back when SMS messages were charged per message, no additional transaction fees.