How do you monetise bot traffic?

autoexec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You take your site off the public internet and paywall it off. Websites on the open internet should be accessible and ideally the goal should be to share something cool with the world, not just to make yourself rich.

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drnick1 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This. The Internet was a better place when people hosted things they wanted to share at home or on their ISP's servers, without the expectation of making money.

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testing22321 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You take your site off the public internet and paywall it off

I did that. I even printed and bound it in a bunch of dead trees and put it up for sale. The LLMs still stole it.

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autoexec 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Paywalling off the site solves the problem of monetizing bot traffic, any bot crawling your pages paid you to be there, but it can't fix the plagiarism/copyright infringement problem

	▲	thesuitonym 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well... They paid someone to be there, not necessarily you.

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gmerc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://claw-guard.org/adnet

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whynotmaybe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Revenue settles in $CLAW tokens

Yes, but no.

	▲	gmerc an hour ago \| parent [-]
		pa-ro-dy

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paytonjjones 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/