Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis

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• Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.

  Is it just me or is this article trashy. It lists scraping as bad and suggests it’s immoral.

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah they arent complaining about specific bot activity, its bots existence in general. someone is sloppily pushing a narrative

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never happen. SEO is a billion dollar industry

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• gunpachi@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bad bots, bad bots whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

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  • StormFather@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bad bots, bad bots whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they captcha you?

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    • ExfilBravo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the captcha now give you no break.

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• markr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At some point in the near future social media will be chatbots all the way down.

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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• 7u5k3n@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dead internet theory en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

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  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the ISP companies complain about how they “couldn’t handle the additional bandwidth” of things like streaming services as they became more popular - at least not without charging everyone more. Come to find out it’s bots consuming the bandwidth. But hey, why waste an opportunity to profit.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’d complain even if there was literally nothing to point at. Why waste an opportunity to profit?

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  • V0lD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a remarkably terrible Wikipedia article

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    • jwt@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably entirely fabricated by bots. /s

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    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I watched a video a while back… I couldn’t find it. It was much better than the wiki.

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• SuckMyWang@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Scraping? Isn’t this what all the ais are doing?

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use flip which let’s me know when discounts are available. Also camel camel camel scrapes amazon. Scraping is pulling information off websites.

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  • thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.

    Bad bots do it too, but they are bad

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And posting to Reddit if I recall correctly :)

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thats… less than I expected.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “nOt EvErYoNe WhO dIsAgReEs WiTh YoU iS a BoT!”

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beep boop, I disagree, fellow human.

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• kewko@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who’s a bad bot?

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sad bot noises 🤖

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