Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

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This post introduces 'pay per crawl,' a new service that allows content owners to monetize their content by charging AI crawlers for access. It leverages HTTP response code 402 and authenticated payment headers (HTTP Message Signatures) to enable programmatic payment for content. This extends Cloudflare's bot management and security capabilities by providing a mechanism for controlled and compensated AI data consumption.