The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.

Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis::undefined

@SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
71Y

Scraping? Isn’t this what all the ais are doing?

@a4ng3l@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
21Y

And posting to Reddit if I recall correctly :)

I use flip which let’s me know when discounts are available. Also camel camel camel scrapes amazon. Scraping is pulling information off websites.

It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.

Bad bots do it too, but they are bad

Create a post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


  • 1 user online
  • 186 users / day
  • 583 users / week
  • 1.37K users / month
  • 4.49K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 7.41K Posts
  • 84.7K Comments
  • Modlog