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.
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