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Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ukraine-drone-strike-yandex-russian-bot-farm-right-wing-maga-afd-reform-uk-conspiracy-theory-viral-rumor/posted in Technology
Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ukraine-drone-strike-yandex-russian-bot-farm-right-wing-maga-afd-reform-uk-conspiracy-theory-viral-rumor/Replying to @purrtastic@lemmy.nz
I don’t know. I work at a cyber security company and the traffic to our site dropped by 58% overnight.
Replying to @jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
Is this the year 2000, we still measuring website traffic?
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
It’s my job to do so
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
What a silly, silly comment
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
What do you even mean?
We’re also still measuring rainfall. Data doesn’t become less valuable as technology progresses…
Replying to @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
Visits to a cyber security firm’s website couldn’t be less useful as a metric here
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Damn, you’re dumb as hell lol
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Hmm, every company monitors their web traffic. That’s standard operating procedure.
Replying to @expr@programming.dev
It’s just not a useful point of comparison anymore for the purposes it used to be. Does cloudflare track how many million hits I’m getting a day? Yes, but it’s next to useless as a measure for popularity or anything of the sort. You can’t differentiate human and bot traffic with any real degree of reliability, nor is there much meaningful reason to do so anymore with agents acting on behalf of real users. A year ago? Sure, I’d listen to an argument, but now users are bots too. Seeing “bot traffic” or web traffic move is meaningless now. A website with 1000 hits a day could be far more popular than a website with millions a day