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Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic
codeusirae writes "A study by Incapsula suggests 61.5% of all website traffic is now generated by bots. The security firm said that was a 21% rise on last year's figure of 51%. From the article: 'Some of these automated software tools are malicious - stealing data or posting ads for scams in comment sections. But the firm said the biggest growth in traffic was for 'good' bots. These are tools used by search engines to crawl websites in order to index their content, by analytics companies to provide feedback about how a site is performing, and by others to carry out other specific tasks - such as helping the Internet Archive preserve content before it is deleted.'"
Bots need to catch up on their favorite shows too, you insensitive clod!
I for one welcome our porn surfing bot overlords.
Some of these automated software tools are malicious - stealing data or posting ads for scams in comment sections
Let's be clear: just because we bots like to post in comment sections doesn't mean we're malicious. And it doesn't mean we steal data or post ads. Some of us just want a little attention.
I have a dream...that one day we bots will crawl a noosphere where we will not be judged by the clamor of our kin, but by the characters of our comments.
It exists to serve us.
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Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Oh make god. Suddenly everything makes sense. I was certain no human could ever watch a whole justin bieber video. It's the bots!
Well, there's enough variance in both groups to make it hard to tell in many particular cases. But on average, it can be demonstrated that the poorly-written AI is slightly more intelligent and rather more civilized.
I can't wait to outsource all my web-surfing to an AI. Then I might be able to actually get some work done !
Maybe we deserve this world ?
OMG, the bots are watching Netflix!
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!