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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#32913977)
> And the most infuriating part, you get CF marketing messages right in your face while your browser is calculating hashcash (I guess?)... At this point I can recognize every single one of them: something about bots making up 40% of all internet traffic,

Yeah, there's something amazingly aggravating about CF telling you how much traffic is bots while showing that they can't distinguish you from a bot.

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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by robocat on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:23PM (#32917285)
CloudFlare are creating a new devision for advertising to bots. They have projected that in the near future, bots will be 90% of spending, so the bot demographic is the most important to target, marketingwise.

The fact that humans are seeing the traffic meant for bots is an unfortunate side-effect.

I personally welcome our future bot overlords (not only because being unwelcome might be unhealthy for me — why would I publicly disagree with an overlord or not want to be their friend?).

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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by rvdca on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:34PM (#32927620)
Someone has seen a basilisk...
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