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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic
(interestingengineering.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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I'm a professional webmaster. While there is tons of bot traffic, not all of them are bad. Google has crawlers, which technically is also a bot. We have synthetics checks and uptime monitoring that are also bots but are very useful for the company.
There are a ton of bad actors, but saying all bot traffic is bad is not fair.