The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

  • Ethalia@feddit.chEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    As long as real users exist on the internet, marketing will follow. If centralized social media will be even more of a shithole than already is, then they will slowly target the decentralized. You won’t escape marketing.

    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      But if 73% of traffic is fake, and they monitor traffic to determine sentiment and marketing strategies, then who are they actually marketing TO?

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        9 months ago

        Those left over who are still human.

        But you do bring up a great point, what happens when the Internet is nothing but bots/shills?