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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there actually a reliable way to differentiate human from bot?
As I understand it as models driving agent behavior of headless browsers are getting more and more sophisticated it's getting harder to reliably predict. The same way LLM's without watermarking cannot be reliably classified as "not-human" neural-network driven scraping tools are getting harder to detect. Cloudflare, and DataDome position themselves as companies that can detect automated traffic using things like IP r…
If you're on a proxy network then you're detectable by TLS handshake timings, for example. You are right though that agent mouse and touch behaviour is almost inseperable from human data these days. So you need to use a combination of techniques in order to detect automation. At Prosopo we check TLS timings, SIMD performance, page similarity, fingerprint proofs, agent honey pots, JS inconsistencies. Rate limiting is surprisingly effective as an initial deterrant. There is no magic single thing that works for all clients, it's a case of learning distinct bot operators' behaviours.
Re: Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
#273I think x402's biggest problem is that, despite being marketed as chain-agnostic, in practice it's locked into a Coinbase/Solana monopoly. Whichever company you look at, they're all on CDP, so they end up supporting either just Base USDC, or Base and Solana USDC. I hope Cloudflare picks a facilitator they can build a genuinely chain-agnostic platform on, like Solvador. (disclosure: I'm the one building it)