The cost of going through a payment processor for micropayments has always been more than the micropayment because the "security checks" over and above using TL

The cost of going through a payment processor for micropayments has always been more than the micropayment because the "security checks" over and above using TLS security on a website starts pushing the costs up _if_ done properly. Saying that those costs should be coming down today compared to a decade or two ago because there is also much better surveillance, more bugs and backdoors/zero days have been found and with the global inflation stalking the planet, ironically it could be the inflation that helps make micro payments become more popular. This is why advertising fees pay for search engine results and its an excuse to intelligence grab from businesses through their advertising criteria so its not just human end users who get surveilled.