webtoll ✋💸

This is a Google Chrome extension built off of Duo Lab's chrome-extension-boilerplate here. It also utilizes Xpring's xpring-js client library. Please note that this is a prototype and requires extensive work to turn it into a consumer ready extension. See the Contributing section for how we can get there.

See slide deck for this project here. In these slides, you can learn more about webtoll's concept, inspiration, and potential future roadmap.

📝 Concept

With webtoll you can digitally tax yourself to form new habits, contribute to a cause, or for no reason at all!

For instance, I spend way too much time on https://knowyourmeme.com/. With webtoll, at least I can browse memes and 💩-post while contributing to a charitable cause or even paying out a friend who's "accountable" for weening me away from the website. The extension itself is quite flexible; it taxes you whenever you consume levied content and sends said tax to a receiver of your choice. Thus, you can adopt it for more tailored use-cases too.

🧰 Installation

To install this extension, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository.
2. Run yarn run build to build the project. The build will be present as webtoll/dist.
3. Open Google Chrome and go to chrome://extensions
4. Turn on Developer Mode.
5. Click Load Unpacked and select the dist folder that you built in (2). The extension should now be loaded.

🖥 Usage

After installing the extension, you can begin configuring it. A typical flow will look like:

1. Create wallet: create your XRP wallet from which webtoll will tax you.
2. Choosewhere you want to send your "taxes" to. Achieve this by inputting a destination address to the Target wallet input in the extension popup.
3. Specify what URL you want to enable webtoll for. For example, if you want to get taxed everytime you go to http://markzuckerburg.com, enter that URL into the Url input in the extension popup.

Once webtoll has been configured, you can check that it works by opening the background view for the extension to check the extension's logs. To get here, go to webtool's extension settings under chrome://extensions and click on background page under Inspect views.

👋 Contributing

Please file a project issue and include some context and explanation of your change in the issue's description. Some good places to start:

• Support for taxing multiple URLs and sending to multiple receivers.
• Adding receiver "sets" or "groups". For example, a group of documentation focused receivers can be [wikipedia, stackoverflow, learnxinyminutes].
• Implement actual security for this extension.
• Implement payment streaming – likely using ILP – for the extension.
• Support other wallet address formats – i.e. ILP style payment pointers.
• Design and implement more sophisticated and reasonable toll rates and logic.
• Add features that analyze user activity and dynamically update webtoll logic accordingly.
• Many other great ideas out there!