How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
URLs tell you where to get content on the web, but they don't tell you anything about how to support the person who created the content. This story might sound similar to paying open source maintainers, where a user can almost abstract an entire project to a single download URL.
There are tons of people creating content for the web and plenty of ways to get paid (Patreon, Kofi, GitHub Sponsors, YouTube Paid Membership), but there's no standardized way to direct someone interested in paying for the content of a page in the right direction.
We have HTML meta headers for many things, including where to find an RSS feed or what my Fediverse handle is, but none for enumerating options to pay the creator of the content. I wish I could click a button to easily send a "tip" to someone who created something I enjoy or to browse other options for supporting them.
There are things like the web "Payment Request API" which gives you a JavaScript API for generating a payment, but this doesn't fit my criteria.
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