Offerwall lets sites provide potentially a few ways to monetize content, and for users to choose the one that they prefer. For example, a publisher can set up to allow reading their site in exchange for watching an ad (similar to YouTube’s model). That’s pretty interesting, but far more interesting to me, is that it integrates with a third-party service called Supertab. Supertab lets people provide their own subscriptions – including a tiny fee for this page, or access to the site for some timed pass – 4 hours, 24 hours, a week, etc. It does this with pretty friction-less wallet integration and by ‘pooling’ the funds until it makes sense to do a real, regular transaction.
Brian Kardell, Web Bucks
For ages, in publishing: Are we gonna do ads or are we going to do memberships? You can kinda mix and match and sell t-shirts and stuff, but all that decision making is on the publisher side.
Interesting to flip the tables and let the readers decide.
And if we really got the Web Monetization API, and clicking those payment buttons was quick and chill because the browser <> wallet connection was a normal, known, easy thing, that would be great.