Pay the Web Forward

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Claim: Web monetization uses the Interledger Protocol plus an open payments wallet address to stream micropayments from visitors so creators avoid ads that funnel 70% of ad spend to two platforms. Implementation exists as a browser extension beta and as a W3C proposal; it requires adding Web Monetization HTML and linking wallets (GitHub, Finost, Chimoney listed), setting per‑day/month rates, budgets and allow/block lists. Payments route via the Web Monetization API → Open Payments → Interledger and presently works across currencies and ledgers.

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1. 0:00Problem with web ads
2. 3:12Web monetization API
3. 6:00Browser extension demo
4. 10:38Interledger protocol
5. 13:10Interledger foundation
6. 17:26W3C standardization
7. 18:59How to get involved

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