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[โ€“] agitatedpotato 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They measured the bot activity in 2022 and foud it was over 47% and rising. How anyone could call this a conspiracy theory is wild to me.

https://securitytoday.com/articles/2023/05/17/report-47-percent-of-internet-traffic-is-from-bots.aspx?m=1

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okay but that's not % of interactions, it's amount of traffic which a single days data scraper is hundreds of people, no?