sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square241fedilinkarrow-up1590arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1585arrow-down1external-linkCloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficwww.techspot.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square241fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squarequarkquasar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI’m still wondering how long advertisers are going to be shoveling money into it until they realize mostly only bots are the audience, and then what the collapse after that is going to look like.
minus-squareeicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThat might be the real breaking point: not when bots dominate traffic, but when advertisers stop believing the traffic represents humans with wallets.
I’m still wondering how long advertisers are going to be shoveling money into it until they realize mostly only bots are the audience, and then what the collapse after that is going to look like.
That might be the real breaking point: not when bots dominate traffic, but when advertisers stop believing the traffic represents humans with wallets.