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Comment by riffraff | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]riffraff · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:00 UTC · link
I play dungeon crawl stone soup (think nethack,but with web tiles), and most of the servers are struggling because of AI crawlers downloading the morgues.

Real users are already suffering.

If (big if) the AI labs can be made to pay for the abuse, actual users win.