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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic (interestingengineering.com)
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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

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[–] designatedhacker@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 11 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?