‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
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Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    22 hours ago

    Time for an alternative? Let the bots have the current Internet, we get a new, better, and more secure one.

      • NanoooK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        26·
        22 hours ago

        We could have a file, like robots.txt, that tell them they aren’t allowed. They would respect it, surely.

        • Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish
          11·
          20 hours ago

          Funny how the internet went to shit when protocols were thrown out of the window and companies instead used their financial weight to ‘solve’ everything.

      • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        That’s a good question for which I have no good answer. It’s clearly something that would have to be dealt with.