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Terence Eden<p>🆕 blog! “How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud”</p><p>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.</p><p>The pitch is simple. A website owner places a single new line in their HTML's &lt;head&gt; - something like this:</p><p>&lt;link rel="monetization"…</p><p>👀 Read more: <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-to-prevent-payment-pointer-fraud/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/how-t</span><span class="invisible">o-prevent-payment-pointer-fraud/</span></a><br>⸻<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebMonitization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebMonitization</span></a></p>
Nicol Wistreich<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aoir.social/@rwg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rwg</span></a></span> nice title. </p><p>You mention subscriptions: if you've not already connected, linking this to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jeremiah</span></a></span> who is doing a lot of work atm around the fediverse and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WebMonitization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebMonitization</span></a>, the best(/only?) cross-browser protocol for decentralised subscriptions: <a href="https://community.interledger.org/jeremiahlee/web-monetization-in-the-fediverse-ilf-grant-progress-report-1-37c7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.interledger.org/jere</span><span class="invisible">miahlee/web-monetization-in-the-fediverse-ilf-grant-progress-report-1-37c7</span></a>. Sadly the only WebMon service, Coil.com, stopped this year but I think the backers Interledger see this as a long-game.</p><p>There was even a PeerTube plugin (<a href="https://github.com/samlich/peertube-plugin-web-monetization" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/samlich/peertube-pl</span><span class="invisible">ugin-web-monetization</span></a>) that briefly paid me real pennies per play!</p>
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