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Residential proxies, used for scraping and hiding nefarious activity, are rising as bots now generate more internet traffic than humans. The article explores the technical and ethical challenges, including payment protocols like Cloudflare and Coinbase's x402 standard.
AWS WAF introduces AI traffic monetization, allowing content owners to charge AI bots per request at the network edge via configurable pricing rules, with payment through Coinbase and upcoming Stripe/MPP support.
A developer optimized their website for AI bots by fixing robots.txt, adding llms.txt, improving semantic HTML, and more, resulting in a 12x increase in AI traffic the next day.