Bots account for almost a third of web traffic

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k310 · 3h ago

And we all pay for it. I am so damn tired of CAPTCHAS that I could scream. I just don’t go to sites behind the “crosswalk and motorcycle” wall. Sometimes, it’s only the checkmark, but I am not in the least automated to solve these, whereas, many bots may be.

The web is ruined. Sites are passing the buck. Cloudflare seems to be the de-facto internet any more.

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Bots account for almost a third of web traffic

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