“Notably, Web Monetization (WM) offers two unique features – small payments and no user interaction – that address several important scenarios currently unmet on the web.”
Web Monetization lets a site pull money from your linked wallet with no click from you. The pitch is paying creators without ads. Coil tried this and shut down about a year ago. “Micropayments are the technology of the future, and always will be,” Andrew Odlyzko wrote in 2003, and nothing here changes that.