New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic - eviltoast
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

  • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I mean, that commenter said the headline was a misinterpretation because it’s not 73% of web traffic, but only account creation attempts.

    If the attempts are stopped, and the bot fails in creating an account, it isn’t able to post/comment/do whatever it needed to do, and isn’t contributing to “web traffic” as much as the other 27% of real people (or, well, uncaught bots).