Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans

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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wonder how Cloudflare estimates the increased rate of false positives they're getting after they made their bot detector even more oversensitive in recent weeks.

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I wonder how much of it is people who just block cloudflare or don’t use JavaScript.

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  • Segab@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doesn’t CloudFlare also have a vested interest in saying bot traffic has overtaken humans to encourage website owners to their services?

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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m constantly getting it checked these days because I do a lot of stuff to prevent being fingerprinted and tracked between sights. I wonder how often they just mark anyone not making them selves easy to identify as a bot.

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  • maggio@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can’t buy flights with SAS anymore because they flag me as a bot. Tried contacting customer support about it, which was a bot

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AI customer service bots, which I know are soulless firewalls really more than helpers, are beyond frustrating.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are probably not many of us though.

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• chahk@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Internet of Shit

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.

  Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.

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• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s important to note that Cloudflare offers paid bot-blocking services.

  I don’t doubt that a large amount of internet traffic is bot traffic, but CF’s CEO is not telling us this because they’re disappointed and outraged and want a change, they telling us this because they want to sell CDN + visitor filtering subscriptions.

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lol, when you change the graph filter from HTML to JSON, it’s 60% human.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Dead Internet Fact

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bots are humans, at least in the sense that bots are initiated by humans.

  So when a human’s tools misbehave, the human should be held accountable (except that’s not feasible).

  Seen in this light, the entire internet is literally now under attack.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bots are not humans, but their creators should still be held accountable.

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• Shamot@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are people giving up waiting for Cloudflare to work considered as bots because they didn’t finish the challenge?

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• its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bots are, essentially, a virus. We are at the point now where they are killing the host. That is if they haven’t already moved us to the point of no return.

  A new internet isn’t going to happen. We are stuck with the anonymous rage inducing or monetization system that took over because the systems of power let it.

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I2P. Not perfect, but a good place to start.

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but I2P doesn’t seem to fill the void. I think what is missing from that is the “norm” of the old internet. The internet was a playground with tons of hobby projects and experiments in its earlier days. I don’t see TOR, I2P, etc, building the same playground because the novelty and ease of access can’t be replicated.

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• SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Beehaw deems my strong opinions on the subject too haphazardly dangerous to the neoliberal conformity well being of its community.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The question is if Iran’s massive percent of Bots is because it has a lot of bots or if its humans just largely lack internet access.

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