▲ 166 ▼ Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it (www.motherjones.com) submitted 3 days ago by purrtastic@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ryannathans@aussie.zone -39 points 3 days ago (7 children) Is this the year 2000, we still measuring website traffic? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children) What do you even mean? We're also still measuring rainfall. Data doesn't become less valuable as technology progresses... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ryannathans@aussie.zone -8 points 2 days ago (1 child) Visits to a cyber security firm's website couldn't be less useful as a metric here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago Damn, you're dumb as hell lol permalink fedilink source parent [–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 child) Hmm, every company monitors their web traffic. That's standard operating procedure. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 2 days ago It's just not a useful point of comparison anymore for the purposes it used to be. Does cloudflare track how many million hits I'm getting a day? Yes, but it's next to useless as a measure for popularity or anything of the sort. You can't differentiate human and bot traffic with any real degree of reliability, nor is there much meaningful reason to do so anymore with agents acting on behalf of real users. A year ago? Sure, I'd listen to an argument, but now users are bots too. Seeing "bot traffic" or web traffic move is meaningless now. A website with 1000 hits a day could be far more popular than a website with millions a day permalink fedilink source parent [–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago It's my job to do so permalink fedilink source parent [–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago What a silly, silly comment permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children) What do you even mean? We're also still measuring rainfall. Data doesn't become less valuable as technology progresses... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ryannathans@aussie.zone -8 points 2 days ago (1 child) Visits to a cyber security firm's website couldn't be less useful as a metric here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago Damn, you're dumb as hell lol permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ryannathans@aussie.zone -8 points 2 days ago (1 child) Visits to a cyber security firm's website couldn't be less useful as a metric here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago Damn, you're dumb as hell lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago Damn, you're dumb as hell lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 child) Hmm, every company monitors their web traffic. That's standard operating procedure. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 2 days ago It's just not a useful point of comparison anymore for the purposes it used to be. Does cloudflare track how many million hits I'm getting a day? Yes, but it's next to useless as a measure for popularity or anything of the sort. You can't differentiate human and bot traffic with any real degree of reliability, nor is there much meaningful reason to do so anymore with agents acting on behalf of real users. A year ago? Sure, I'd listen to an argument, but now users are bots too. Seeing "bot traffic" or web traffic move is meaningless now. A website with 1000 hits a day could be far more popular than a website with millions a day permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 2 days ago It's just not a useful point of comparison anymore for the purposes it used to be. Does cloudflare track how many million hits I'm getting a day? Yes, but it's next to useless as a measure for popularity or anything of the sort. You can't differentiate human and bot traffic with any real degree of reliability, nor is there much meaningful reason to do so anymore with agents acting on behalf of real users. A year ago? Sure, I'd listen to an argument, but now users are bots too. Seeing "bot traffic" or web traffic move is meaningless now. A website with 1000 hits a day could be far more popular than a website with millions a day permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago It's my job to do so permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago What a silly, silly comment permalink fedilink source parent