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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

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

What percentage would you guess that are bots as commenters?

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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%.