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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

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TechSpotCloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet trafficCDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...
potatopotato@potatopotato@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

I don’t host things on the open internet anymore. I have a small set of services I host for a group of friends and family and I set them up with tailscale.

On the flip side, I’ve been constantly frustrated because every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can’t do it because everything is captcha’d to all hell.

I think http/https is dead at this point.

dan@dan@upvote.au

Replying to @⁨potatopotato@sh.itjust.works⁩

every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can’t do it because everything is captcha’d to all hell.

On the flip side, a bunch of services / web apps (mostly paid ones) are adding APIs to become “AI native”… but you can use those APIs without having to use AI too.

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