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Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis (www.securityweek.com)

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[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dead internet theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 12 points 9 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.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] V0lD@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's a remarkably terrible Wikipedia article

[–] jwt@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Probably entirely fabricated by bots. /s

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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