Why agents need paywalls too
Publishers built login walls to keep bots out. The bots your readers actually send are now the traffic worth letting in, and HTTP has had the status code for it since 1997.
Mara Okafor, . 4 min read
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Sales ledger, Readers. Also printed as Markdown and JSON
Reporting on how software pays, proves who it is, and reads the web.
Paywalls, micropayments, and what changes when a request can settle its own bill.
Publishers built login walls to keep bots out. The bots your readers actually send are now the traffic worth letting in, and HTTP has had the status code for it since 1997.
Mara Okafor, . 4 min read