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

And the ISP companies complain about how they “couldn’t handle the additional bandwidth” of things like streaming services as they became more popular - at least not without charging everyone more. Come to find out it’s bots consuming the bandwidth. But hey, why waste an opportunity to profit.

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That’s a remarkably terrible Wikipedia article

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I watched a video a while back… I couldn’t find it. It was much better than the wiki.

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