The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

  • designatedhacker@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    You think these bots are streaming movies and music? 73% of Internet traffic is not bots. It’s all YouTube, Netflix, Insta, TikTok, Spotify, etc media consumption. 73% of login traffic may be bots, but it’s a teeny drop of global traffic.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      73% of login traffic may be bots, but it’s a teeny drop of global traffic.

      So you are assuming they’re just logging in and not doing anything else, yes?

      That there are no bots that (for example) watch YouTube videos and then gives them a like up or down, depending how they’ve been paid to do so, etc?