https://bareproxy.com/tags/payments/ Recent content in Payments on BareProxy.com Hugo en-us Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bareproxy.com/bareproxy-ai-crawler-payment-gate-plugin-402-payment-required-for-bots-that-want-the-content/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bareproxy.com/bareproxy-ai-crawler-payment-gate-plugin-402-payment-required-for-bots-that-want-the-content/ <p><strong>Status: planned, number 19 of 21 in BareProxy&rsquo;s build order.</strong> The plugins are built easiest first, and this one is about four or five days of coding: prices, proof of payment and books, on payment schemes still settling. It comes after the Response cache plugin. This post describes what it will do, and it will be updated as it is built.</p> <p>AI companies need fresh, well-written pages, and a growing number of publishers want to be paid for them. The web has had a status code for this since 1997 that almost nobody used: 402 Payment Required. It is finally getting a job. A site answers a crawler with 402 and its terms; the crawler pays and comes back with proof; the site serves the page.</p>