2026-08-08T16:58:37.275317Z

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...

2026-08-08T23:51:40.98008Z

Flying_Lynx@Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml

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>Their activity can closely resemble ordinary browsing, but it happens at machine speed and can be repeated on an enormous scale.

I don’t browse at machine speed. Perhaps there’s a detection thingy to make. Perhaps not faster than 1 second per page.

(Why can’t I properly use the markup in my replies?)

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2026-08-09T00:29:23.039907Z

gandalf_der_13te@gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org

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Replying to @⁨Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml⁩

uhh, the bots are requesting multiple sites in parallel, not in series, so it’s difficult to say “hey look, that user moves through 5 pages per second”. instead, you’d say “hey look, there’s 5 users each crawling through 1 page per second”.

2026-08-09T02:02:22.401671Z

xthexder@xthexder@l.sw0.com

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Replying to @⁨Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml⁩

I think you’re missing the space after > for the quote syntax.

Like this

2026-08-10T02:34:30.283818Z

Flying_Lynx@Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml

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Replying to @⁨xthexder@l.sw0.com⁩

I just use the Markup buttons. Let’s add a space:

Like this

That works, thanks.