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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic (interestingengineering.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the same as snail mail and phone calls?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I recently switched cell providers to save a pile of money, but the new one doesn't have call control like the old did. 100% of my calls over the last two weeks were spam calls. I keep telling myself the savings are worth it, but my God it's annoying.