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Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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. It also lists account management as bad.

I got a feeling powers that be will attempt to make scrapping illegal under the guise of AI fears. I don't imagine that many companies like scrapers that collate prices of their products into a website that let's people compare prices against other stores. I don't imagine the real bad actors like scrapers that archive internet content into things like the way back machine. It makes it harder to delete that late night drunken rant, the poor PR choice or the political flip flopping or makes it easier to capture real bad activities in the act before they delete their activity after lighting fires everywhere

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Never happen. SEO is a billion dollar industry

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the captcha now give you no break.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Its funny cos why bother trying to automate a captcha when u can outsource it to a real human?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a remarkably terrible Wikipedia article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Probably entirely fabricated by bots. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And posting to Reddit if I recall correctly :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Thats... less than I expected.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"nOt EvErYoNe WhO dIsAgReEs WiTh YoU iS a BoT!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Beep boop, I disagree, fellow human.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

sad bot noises 🤖