They do, but even if they didn’t AI companies are going take them anyway. Bots make up 50% of internet traffic. AI companies have ignored robot.txt entries. Anything publicly available, even if it’s behind a password, is accessible since companies like Reddit sell that information.
The source of the article is Imperva 2024 Bad Bot Report, but I cannot download the report. I do not know how they measured traffic. In this age of social media, I am going to guess it is by data volume and site visits.
They do, but even if they didn’t AI companies are going take them anyway. Bots make up 50% of internet traffic. AI companies have ignored robot.txt entries. Anything publicly available, even if it’s behind a password, is accessible since companies like Reddit sell that information.
I’ve read a study that claimed ads were 50% of traffic by data volume.
Is anyone actually still using the internet, or is it all ad networks sending crap to bots?
This is my source : Forbes.
The source of the article is Imperva 2024 Bad Bot Report, but I cannot download the report. I do not know how they measured traffic. In this age of social media, I am going to guess it is by data volume and site visits.
Here’s the report:
https://files.catbox.moe/bm9n2c.pdf
Even its hidden behind a password?
Like private subreddits or private messages.
Reddit is about to make that somewhat more “public”, I heard they are changing the pm and DMs to a chat system
Ah when stuff is behind a password but not encrypted and still on their servers. Yes.
Correct.