[dormento]

Last night I had a nightmare about cloudflare finally monetizing the "making sure you're not a robot" page. AI agents got the information they needed, we got ads instead ("why are you here? You're supposed to let agents do the thing. Watch some ads instead").

I woke up with such a bad feeling..

[KetoManx64]

I dream of the day where we have the opposite. Each website you visit/scrape/your bot interacts with asks you for $0.01 as payment in lightning tokens. You pay per visit and you don't have to see ads or be tracked anymore.

[accrual]

Bot could look at remaining balance and decide which sites to visit. Ah, <popular resource> has raised rates to 0.025 microtokens/access, I'll have to use <secondary resource> which is still a budget-friendly 0.005 mt.