Comment by Its_Padar
11 days ago
This pretty much solves the problem of too many bots, but only in a way that works with Cloudflare and does not help the rest of the web. They don't mention any possibility of specifying a different platform to route payments through for instance.
Cloudflare published details of the prototype implementation, so there's no reason if it takes off then other CDNs and hosts can't implement the same 402 protocol.
There's literally nothing Cloudflare-specific about this.