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Why do we need a whole new browser for this?
by tikwidd 8y ago
Why do we need a whole new browser for this?
- mtgx 8y agoIdeally it would be a completely interoperable system/protocol - so nothing like say Paypal or Google Contributor that competitors would resist adopting anyways. Plus, the adoption from a single provider for payment services wouldn't be nearly as high as a protocol + hundreds of providers.
- Yoric 8y agoWe don't, but getting there on the web at scale is a long battle. The W3C has been working on WebPayments [1] for several years. Once it lands on most browsers, it should enable websites to offer a choice between ads and micropayments. But there are lots of problems to solve first, ranging from finding the right APIs and UXs to make sure that users won't end up paying by accident, or that children won't pay with their parent's browser without their agreement, to the fact that people don't use the same mechanisms for paying al over the world, to security issues, etc. [1] https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/ https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/