sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoCloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square254fedilinkarrow-up1599arrow-down16
arrow-up1593arrow-down1external-linkCloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficwww.techspot.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square254fedilink
minus-squarequarkquasar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI’m still wondering how long advertisers are going to be shoveling money into it until they realize mostly only bots are the audience, and then what the collapse after that is going to look like.
minus-squareeicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat might be the real breaking point: not when bots dominate traffic, but when advertisers stop believing the traffic represents humans with wallets.
I’m still wondering how long advertisers are going to be shoveling money into it until they realize mostly only bots are the audience, and then what the collapse after that is going to look like.
That might be the real breaking point: not when bots dominate traffic, but when advertisers stop believing the traffic represents humans with wallets.