L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoNew study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web trafficinterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down114file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months 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?
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?