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Its a technical solution to a non existing problem.

99% of the big companies provide a standardized known way of paying stuff everyone is used to use.

Its a credit card.

Whatever happens somehow in the background, no one cares.

Credit cards don't work for small-value transactions, which is exactly what you need for a pay-per-visit model. For human users, you'd also need to address privacy concerns, but for scrapers I suppose it's not necessary.

EDIT: And that's without mentioning the value of machine-readable payment requests, which is what x402 actually brings.