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		ai-christianson 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers t... Websites should be able to request payment. Who cares if it is a human or an agent of a human if it is paying for the request?

adriand 18 days ago | [–]

Cloudflare launched a mechanism for this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

carlosjobim 19 days ago | | [–]

They are able to request payment.

sds357 18 days ago | [–]

What if the agent is reselling the request?

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