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Comment by gck1 | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]gck1 · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:55 UTC · link
This seems to be conflicting with the adoption of Web Bot Auth, which is still in infancy stage.

I do have some bots, they're nice and predominantly used for grounding AI harnesses which I use interactively. Knowing that most operators will whitelist maybe 5 well know bots and route the rest to the micropayments, what's the incentive for me to have my bots identify as bots with Web Both Auth when it's easier to make them mascarade as humans?

Again, my bots are nice. They're making roughly the same number of requests I would make manually via browser if I was manually working on something.