Cloudflare introduces “Pay per Crawl”, using HTTP code 402: Payment Required. This their way of trying to limit AI bots from scraping your site and getting content creators paid in the process.
Not a bad idea, but no mention of #ecash as a bearer token. Scrapers have to register on Cloudflare and enter payment information. Totally inefficient and of course KYC.
@calle you need to explain to them how this should really work.
The Cloudflare Blog
Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.