Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit

December 4, 2025

Screenshot of a blog post titled "Running Node.js in a Hugging Face Space" on a dark-themed website called "blogccasion," with a pop-up from the Web Monetization extension offering subscription options to support content creators.

Web Monetization gives publishers more revenue options and audiences more ways to sustain the content they love. Support can take many forms: from a one-time contribution to a continuous, pay-as-you-browse model. It all flows seamlessly while people engage with the content they love. Publishers earn the moment someone engages, while audiences contribute in real time, using a balance they control.I encourage you all to give it a try! Install the extension that polyfills the proposed Web standard, get a wallet (I went with GateHub, which works in US Dollars and Euros), and then connect it to the extension.

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Somewhere between subscriptions and advertising locally lies a business model that can enable new kinds of content and services on the web.

Web monetization is a W3C standard that may enable just such an innovation.