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I stopped detecting bots and started charging them: HTTP 402 + USDC for agent traffic

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My referral and ad revenue has a shape problem. When a page is fetched by a crawler or an agent that reads the markup and leaves, three things happen at once: the request costs bandwidth and origin work, the ad slot is never rendered for a person, and the affiliate link is never clicked through to…

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  1. 2026-10-10 04:31 · DEV Community — AI
    I stopped detecting bots and started charging them: HTTP 402 + USDC for agent traffic

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