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🆕 blog! “Security Flaws in the WebMonetization Site”

I've written before about the nascent WebMonetization Standard. It is a proposal which allows websites to ask users for passive payments when they visit. A visitor to this site could, if this standard is widely adopted, opt to send me cash for my very fine blog…

Curtis Parfitt-Ford

@curtispf@social.mashed.cloud replied · 6 days ago

@Edent it looks as though none of the links in your article work anymore just FYI - all, even the Alice/Bob test and the example.com redirect, just go to a page saying not a valid URL

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@curtispf Yup. I've just updated the post - looks like they're working on a fix.

@edbo@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@Edent That's insane, cant you just put two tags in the header and the client does the randomness. What benefit does their approach have?

bytes4life

@bytes4life@mastodon.gal replied · 7 days ago

Is it related to Brave's Atention Token?

Tom Walker

@tomw@mastodon.social replied · last week

@Edent What kind of ridiculous thought process led to this using a centralised URL with the config base64'd onto the end? Absolutely bizarre

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