New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined
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More evidence for the Dead Internet Theory
I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing if people were good, but it can easily be abused as we’ve seen with election manipulation.
Soon there will be content created and consumed entirely by generative “ai,” an almost shadow-culture.
They’ll have memes beyond our understanding!
Prophetic.
Horse shit.
Sandvine still released traffic reports. So does Cable Labs.
Maybe attempted connections, but not volume / tonnage / bytes.
Okay, bot. I believe it, doesn’t surprise me at all. Lemmy is also full of bots.
I’m a bot
100% on Twitter, 150% on Facebook. Or maybe the other way around 🤷
Was scrolling through Facebook as I still use it to keep in touch with family. 20 sponsored posts for every one actual post. Facebook is terrible.
I just went on my annual visit. I’m not sure if it was ublock or what, but it was actually a fairly pleasant experience with no ‘sponsored’ content. Reminded me of the Facebook of old. Accessed through the browser, of course. I don’t want that cancerous app on my phone.
I am on mobile. I’ll try desktop!
I was on mobile too, just on Firefox with ublock.
I caught that after I replied. Firefox with ublock is now my default android browser. You’re right…going into feed mode to see posts chronologically with ad block is the Facebook of old. Thanks for the tip.
I miss the days when the internet was a fad that most people were apathetic towards.
before we even had search engines, and had to rely on websites listing links to every website.
i hate it when i open my laptop and there’s an error sign blocking the trackpad
Bot wars
No I’m not!
How much of the internet is automated should be the real question.
