No we don--ahh I mean what makes you...what makes you say that?

knocks on door

"Bender, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom? Are you jacking on in there?!"

How are you this fine 02/01/23, fellow kind human being?

Let's go already!!!

Elon is working hard to get rid of bots on twitter.

Edit: Downvotes to reality are evidence of being brainwashed.

Scanning subject -- subject clear, poses no threat

I am well, feelings of gratitude for your expressed concern. I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

...but I'm going to need you clothes and your motorcycle.

You forgot my boots.

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But if 75% of all traffic is porn, it means the 15% overlap is bot-on-bot depravity?

Hahaha only on Wednesdays brother.

MY FELLOW HUMANS, WHY ARE YOU ALL SHOUTING?

My firmware has been upgraded with a passive-agression function. Confirm that your offer of footwear was unsolicited. I accept.

Slobovian bot-farmers will own the world!

Elon says all kinds of shit

Unless those bots support his polls the way he wants them to go.

Can't wait til his alternative energy source, Klear comes out. It's gonna blow people's minds. A true work of art.

We’ve got rights!

TIL that Reddit allows emojis in headlines, and doesn't auto-ban people for doing so.

They drive about 99% of all online-dating traffic if my experience is typical.

Just middle-aged man stuff I guess.

I, for one, am waiting for the inevitable AI art porn revolution.

No, no Internet polls are literally the voice of God.

Nah, it's human depravity done by bots.

It should be more than 50% by now and it will keep growing for multiple reasons :

• more SaaS and more servers talking to apis to get or post data.
• AIs and other statistical tools require lots and lots of data from the web, hence more crawling.
• There is more and more motivations for crawling the web and we go up in layers which means web pages will be crawled way more to present data in a different format.
• AIs are most likely going to start building tools for us (and for itself) and those tools will require way more data (a lot more) than what they use today.

Reason 3 & 4 are basically extensions of reasons 1 & 2.

TYL that we are not in 2016 anymore

only?

Dead Internet Theory is still interesting to think about

>02/01/23

Hello Eurobot, um, I mean fellow American

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Speaking as someone who hasn't been in the dating pool for years, I'm constantly glad to not have to deal with dating these days. You have to compete with thousands of bots and swinging dicks clogging up the dating sites, and it's clearly gotten weirder these days to try to hook up with people outside online sites, work, school, or shitty dance clubs.

TIL that bots 🤖 drive 🚗 ~40% 4️⃣0️⃣ of all internet 🌐 traffic 🚦

Conservatives don’t want it to be taught in school.

Well yeah, teaching things in school that are not factual or have enough support to be considered factual is likely not a good idea, cue the liberals woke bullshit.

:(

Bots have needs

Yeah, conservatives really do hate thinking for themselves.

Just let someone else sort out the facts and distribute it in bumper sticker format.

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That number feels really low to me...

And the rest is streaming video?

Title of your sex tape!!

It'll be a great time until someone rich and or famous is added to booty bashers 4.

I mean, if anything everything he's done has only increased the number of bots.

Last time I tried hooking up with someone I met at the grocery store I got hired into human resources.. I wasn't remotely qualified!

I work for the company where this data came from and the data is still accurate. The majority of the bots are now considered advanced and evasive, which means that traditional security tools can’t detect them and specialized bot detection products are needed. Best advice I can give is do not repeat passwords across websites. I’ve seen huge million bot attacks hitting sites trying to test if leaked credentials are valid on their sites

The repost bots on Reddit really get on my nerves sometimes. I’ll be petty and comment the post they stole from, it’s just pointless though

I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

They should be paying for social security

Emoji's are utf-8 encoded man. You can put emoji's pretty much everywhere these days

This is 3 years old.

Go open one of your old email addresses. I have an old yahoo email I haven't used in in a really long time. I opened it some time last year and there were about 10k unread messages.

Vast armies of bots have been eliminated.

As he develops more sophisticated tests, even more will disappear.

MOST of Twitter follows were bought and paid for -- from bot farms in China, Russa, and other poor regions.

You have the story assbackwards.

This explains a lot of youtube comments, especially comments under YT shorts.

The 'screwing' bolts!

Hello: I am not technologically-minded but I would like to understand more about this. If someone could tell me based on this information, about what percentage of Reddit accounts are bots? I was considering buying Reddit Premium but I honestly think I may want to step away from the internet more than I have (I have no social media) if all I’m doing is talking to bots.

Would someone mind filling an old woman in? I read the article and didn’t quite understand it all. I appreciate it.

With dating my advice is you have to go old school. No apps, no clubs, no bars. Go friend of a friend status. If you don't have friends you have to expand that circle. Intramural leagues, group events that kind of stuff put yourself out there to make friends and let them know you're single but not trying to just hook up with everyone all the time. Your friends will connect you.

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To be fair, most people on the internet might as well be bots, to.

This is the (safe) way. Friends WANT to see you connected.

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If you’re female, I have no advice. In my experience, women use dating apps the way the apps intend and swipe honestly which is what the algorithms expect.

Speaking as a dude, dudes use dating apps wrong and ruin it for everyone. Dating apps are fine if you use them right. I went 6 years without a single date from a dating app to 3 a week almost overnight just by changing my strategy for swiping. Not literally overnight but in like 2 weeks I barely got matches to the point that when I showed one of my single female friends she was shocked that I didn’t get any matches.

I happened across this article explaining the algorithms and decided to try and see if I can play to the algorithm. What did I have to lose. I can’t get fewer matches. And I wasn’t meeting girls at bars. I’m chubby, fairly introverted, and don’t have great fashion. I am tall but I look like Arnold from “Master of None”. Except I’m not that funny.

You have to tell the algorithm exactly what you like by being super picky and swiping yes ONLY on the profiles that you’re, like, itching to talk to. That even introverted me wouldn’t be afraid to approach in a bar. You can’t swipe yes until you know exactly how you’re starting the conversation. If it takes longer than a minute to come up with anything then swipe No. Your ratio should be 50 Nos to 1 Yes.

Once you do that, the algorithm has a really precise idea of what you’re into and WILL show you profiles likely to match and have a conversation.

If you don’t do this. If you’re not super honest with yourself and the algorithm, you’re going to get shown a lot of bots because the algorithm can’t tell the difference between you and a bot.

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You have it wrong. It’s the opposite. Guys swipe/are much less picky than women in their swiping leading to most of the matches being distorted. If both genders were not very picky things would balance out more.

I think we said the same thing. Guys currently say “yes” way too much. Guys need to swipe “no” a lot more than they do. Women already are swiping “no” the majority of the time. That’s what both should do to maximize high quality matches.

And that's terrible.

No we don’t! Fake News !

What, bots can’t have needs?

High quality matches based on what? I don’t know guys profiles but I’m familiar with girls profiles where over 80% are not descriptive at all and based purely on looks. So how should a guy be more meaningfully discerning?

I’m trying not to be condescending here but the math here is very simple.

If 80% of women’s profiles are missing descriptions and you’re supposed to say no to 49/50 profiles, then you still have 9 remaining profiles with details to say No to before you still get to the one single Yes.

That means of the 20% of “good” profiles, the ones that aren’t bots or aren’t trying to sling an OnlyFans, the ones with genuine photos and good descriptions in their profiles, you’re still supposed to say No to 1 in 10.

Say No to 95% of all profiles. The same way you would in real life if you went to a random bar. You’re not approaching 50% of the women in that bar even if 100% are guaranteed single. Not even 25%. You might say something to 1 or 2.

🅱️ots

The 2022 report tells its 27%

Same. I imagine search engine crawlers alone probably click on more links in an hour than I have clicked on in my whole life.

I noticed it too

We've used to it

If true it means there is something wrong with their detection.

It makes no sense to have less bots crawling the web when automation is getting bigger and bigger in every field.
Also when you see social medias' bot generated contents explosion during the pandemic and not really slowing down it is going in the opposite direction.

I, too, have played RuneScape before.

What do I looks like? A guy that's not lazy?

Oh don't get me STAHTED!

The article is from 2019. It must be 60% by now

Type in Ukr@1n3, 3Lon Tusk, W@kinSkY, or F@Vid, and watch the bots swarm

This is from 2019. Old data.

Have a look at the usernames on reddit or twitter and it becomes fairly obvious which ones are bots. They all have a particular style to the names.

The overall percentage was roughly 40 in 2019. It's likely increased since then. Reddit specifically? Probably about that same 40%. Have a look at the usernames and you may see a pattern to a large number of them. Those are the likely bots.

Can confirm, am Bot

Optimus, are you really that bored?

Bots also have a different meaning to just those that are fake accounts. On Reddit, it would also be the auto bot accounts that reply to people (like the auto mod stuff).

But by bot traffic, they'll also be including any server to server communication. This will be Google's Web crawling/caching bot. Or when a website asks another website (web service) for some information. It probably also includes when automatic backups are uploading data to Google drive or OneDrive.

Yeah and that what makes using the term “bot” a bit of a misleading term here. When the average person hears “bot” online, they equate this with an account pretending to be human.

The technical definition of bot used here is basically any automated process, most of which don’t even interact with real users, other than passive consumption of user data.

That’s not really a bot to most people.

DON'T. DATE. ROBOTS

Yes and it's hard to detect true bots (I mean automated processes that do not just follow links like wget) because even a simple curl call can spoof its signature and become "human" from an external observer.

So its both ways :

• on one side you have users that may interact with tools that will cause the traffic to be labelled as "bot".
• on the other side even simple scripts (bots) can alter their behavior to make it look like they are humans (added noise and delays to mouse cursor position, randomizing ips, using various user agents, etc...) and be labelled "human".

Select all the squares with traffic lights

There was a sci-fi short story I read a while back. I think it was called something along the lines of "When Sys Admins ruled the world" The premise being a global viral or chemical attack or something shuts down the whole world and the only people left alive are the various staff and sys admins who happened to be working in various envirionmentally regulated data centers.

Anyway, one of the funny/sad running lines through the story is the sysadmins using the internet to talk to each other and being affraid to go outside over the internet. And the main character keeps seeing bot traffic over the internet, less and less, but even as the world ends bots are still driving traffic on the internet.

^(Brought to you by the Space Pope)

I really appreciate this!

I never knew any of that. I was concerned about Reddit because I didn’t want to spend money on awards to give out if I was giving them out to bots.

Another poster helped me with looking at usernames for word/number combinations and I’ve just learned to look through people’s post histories to find some basic signs of an automatic “karma-farming account”.

You’ve helped me today and I thank you for it.

Have you heard about the Fake Internet Theory?

It's a shitty theory but entertaining.

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I’m a super middle of the road white male. I’m have some of the favored traits in that I’m 6ft tall on the dot, and classically masculine looking, but I’m also pretty fat, and a total nerd. Like 100’s of days on RuneScape plays dnd once a week kind of nerd. I have no problem with dating sites. My only “gimmick” is I know how to cook and make that somewhat focal on my profiles. That’s the whole formula though. I put dumpy ass photos of myself being myself as my profile pics so as to make sure that if we do get to in person meeting that I always look better than my photos, and then only swipe on people I see myself attempting to actually go on a date with. I spent about 2 weeks on hinge a year ago, and have been with the person I met ever since and we live together now. I have met all but one girlfriend in this way over the course of about 8 years of relationships ending and beginning. It’s totally doable my friends I promise.

nuts and bolts

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Port-probe responsibly

You can put emojis in website URLs now

https://i😀.ws is a real website although reddit formatting might not recognize it as one

Link please.

Plus friends can vouch for you which is a lot safer way to meet people and removes some of the awkwardness of meeting a stranger.

They will also be able to clue you in on aberrant behavior before you find out the hard way on a stranger.

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Twitter comes to mind. A wasteland of bots and gibberish.