Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis

Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by actondev on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:41AM (#38291765)

And this is why we can't have nice things. Now that we will/are starting to have AI-created content, and visits from bots, comments from AI bots.. we need some new metric I reckon

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by klyrs on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:49AM (#38291892)

I propose: time spent offline.

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by sonicanatidae on Thursday November 16, 2023 @12:26PM (#38292501)

What is this, "offline", of which you speak?!?!

You mean like wifi?

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by kibwen on Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:01PM (#38293024)

I think "offline" means mocking your ethernet driver to produce packets confabulated by a locally-running copy of ChatGPT, so you can doomscroll the internet even without needing to pay Comcast for the privilege.

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by sonicanatidae on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:01AM (#38303637)

Ahhh.. whew... for a microsecond, I was thinking they meant the dark ages.

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by h2odragon on Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:10PM (#38293162)

Naw, theres this great new game; "nonvirtual reality"

its kinda expensive and dangerously addictive

the resolution and refresh rate are amazing

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by sonicanatidae on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:32AM (#38304106)

But how do the packets get to the other computers? Are you trailing a cord on a spool?

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by h2odragon on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:20AM (#38304755)

nah its like WiFi but lower frequency. "sound"

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Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis by sonicanatidae on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:22PM (#38367746)

That sounds like a situation ripe for modulation to increase data throughput.

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