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

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 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 8 months ago

Never happen. SEO is a billion dollar industry