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Ok, I wasn't necessarily doubting the donation. I thought though that if they didn't donate but gave the money that their algorithm determined that it would be an interesting thing for several reasons:

1. would show coil is getting quite a bit of money.

2. would show importance of MDN.

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Ah, yeah, I don't think that many people have the extension installed yet, but I can see them not requiring big sites to add a monetization header and just sending the money to them instead.

We're working to make the Web Monetization API a standard that browsers can adopt natively: https://webmonetization.org

The extension helps us bootstrap the ecosystem but a native integration is far superior. Check out Puma browser for an example of the integrated experience for mobile.

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