You’re absolutely correct, and there’s privacy concerns for Apple in the spec, e.g. the users info is now sent with transactions. c.f. example of how merchants

You’re absolutely correct, and there’s privacy concerns for Apple in the spec, e.g. the users info is now sent with transactions. c.f. example of how merchants M1 and M2 could collide to identify payment method P1 and P2 are connected to the same user EDIT: Throttled on new comments I agree: I'd take up more detailed Qs with the article writer & spec/proposal, they seem sure its different. I also agree if the new proposal is the same as the old proposal, it does seem likely Apple would implement it. I don't understand why the W3C would make a new proposal that was the same as the old one, but...forget it Jake, it's ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶a̶t̶o̶w̶n̶ web specs.