New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

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      1 year ago

      It amazes me when I spin up some random server on a cloud provider and it’s immediately getting tons of traffic from bots searching for insecure ssh servers and default WordPress admin credentials and then like. If that’s the short of stuff they’re counting, I’d believe it. But yeah, it’s not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

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        1 year ago

        But yeah, it’s not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

        What percentage would you guess that are bots as commenters?

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          That’s a good question, I doubt I could make a very accurate guess. Just broadly though, based mainly on the lack of an immediately obvious payoff, I’d guess less than 50%.