People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.
Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.
I’m constantly getting bot checked these days because I do a lot of stuff when casually browsing to prevent being fingerprinted and tracked between sites. I wonder how often they just mark anyone not making them selves easy to identify as a bot.
I can’t buy flights with SAS anymore because they flag me as a bot. Tried contacting customer support about it, which was a bot
AI customer service bots, which I know are soulless firewalls really more than helpers, are beyond frustrating.
It’s important to note that Cloudflare offers paid bot-blocking services.
I don’t doubt that a large amount of internet traffic is bot traffic, but CF’s CEO is not telling us this because they’re disappointed and outraged and want a change, they telling us this because they want to sell CDN + visitor filtering subscriptions.
Beehaw deems my strong opinions on the subject too haphazardly dangerous to the neoliberal conformity well being of its community.
Bots are, essentially, a virus. We are at the point now where they are killing the host. That is if they haven’t already moved us to the point of no return.
A new internet isn’t going to happen. We are stuck with the anonymous rage inducing or monetization system that took over because the systems of power let it.
Bots are humans, at least in the sense that bots are initiated by humans.
So when a human’s tools misbehave, the human should be held accountable (except that’s not feasible).
Seen in this light, the entire internet is literally now under attack.
Bots are not humans, but their creators should still be held accountable.
The question is if Iran’s massive percent of Bots is because it has a lot of bots, perhaps as a Proxy for China, or if its humans just largely lack internet access.
