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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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azeemba
· 2026-07-01 Wed 21:03 UTC ·
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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.
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wmf
· 2026-07-01 Wed 22:03 UTC ·
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If you're paying per token for AI, you can also pay a smaller amount to use the Web.
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mx7zysuj4xew
· 2026-07-02 Thu 03:13 UTC ·
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As it should be. Bots are still user agents much like browsers