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I did not get it how it could be used for a _static blog_.

>…the paywall fetches the content behind the scenes, and since our response is JSON rather than HTML it has nothing to render in place, so it navigates to an in-memory object URL created from the response. The protocol itself is pay per use, so every time you hit an API - you will be charged.

So it can't be used to 'unlock' a paid article forever? You can only read it once, and if you closed the tab, you need to pay again?

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Yeah, it doesn't unlock content forever, the protocol is made with assumption of payment per use. I haven't tried to present the same payment confirmation twice, but reading about it I assume it will fail. In this PoC the browser's ser opened content in memory as a separate tab, but it is a side effect, bot a feature. So you are right, it's not usable for tracking subscriptions in any way.

There is a description of an access token, so it looks like you'll have some time to access a page. Anyway, this is more for bots. If you want this page so much, just print it to pdf.