‘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.
    • NanoooK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days 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·
        2 days 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·
      2 days ago

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