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Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Hmm, every company monitors their web traffic. That's standard operating procedure.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 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

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