sennheisenberg comments on New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic (interestingengineering.com)

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

[–] sennheisenberg@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

"73% of web traffic" does not mean 73% of comments, posts, content, etc.

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[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It amazes me when I spin up some random server on a cloud provider and it's immediately getting tons of traffic from bots searching for insecure ssh servers and default WordPress admin credentials and then like. If that's the short of stuff they're counting, I'd believe it. But yeah, it's not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

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[–] Enigma28@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah we had a presentation at work from AWS , they said expect all ports and protocols on any aws server you spin up to be scanned in less than 1min of any instance being created

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But yeah, it’s not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

What percentage would you guess that are bots as commenters?

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[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

That's a good question, I doubt I could make a very accurate guess. Just broadly though, based mainly on the lack of an immediately obvious payoff, I'd guess less than 50%.

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