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Comment by azeemba | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]azeemba · 2026-07-01 Wed 21:03 UTC · link
Crawler, AI or not, cannot afford to pay per visit. The entire model of crawling works because the incremental cost of each crawl is so low. Even fractions of a penny would be prohibitive.
[−]wmf · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:03 UTC · link
If you're paying per token for AI, you can also pay a smaller amount to use the Web.
[−]mx7zysuj4xew · 2026-07-02 Thu 03:13 UTC · link
As it should be. Bots are still user agents much like browsers