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Citing a Cloudflare earnings call, Zero Hedge highlights that non-human traffic has surpassed human traffic online and could reach 1,000x human traffic within five years, making humans a rounding error on the internet.
Recommend a website called TG知道, which specifically collects Chinese Telegram channels, groups, and bots, supports categorized search, making it convenient for users to discover quality resources.
The article highlights the growing prevalence of bots in website traffic, revealing that a vast majority of visits are automated rather than human.
A website reports that 80% of its traffic comes from AI crawlers, with only two actual referrals to show for it.
A guide on methods to block automated bot accounts on various platforms.
Introduces a GitHub project called TelegramGroup that curates a large collection of high-quality Telegram groups, channels, and bots, categorized by direction to help newcomers quickly find the resources they need.
A report reveals that 14 out of the top 20 wallets on the prediction market platform Polymarket are bots, and none can verify their track record, raising concerns about manipulation and transparency.
The article discusses the validity of the dead internet theory, a conspiracy suggesting that most online activity and content are generated by bots and AI.
Researchers demonstrate that prompt injection can be used to manipulate Telegram romance scam bots, revealing a security vulnerability in AI-powered chatbots.
This paper studies the impact of bot adoption on open-source software projects, finding that after adopting bots, projects show more repeated collaboration, fewer conflict cascades, and more distinctive outputs, suggesting bots can strengthen social infrastructure.
Telegram launches a serverless platform for bots and Mini Apps, allowing developers to run JavaScript code on Telegram's infrastructure without managing servers.
Recommends awesome-telegram, a GitHub repository that organizes Telegram resources (bots, development libraries, automation scripts, theme plugins, groups, and channels), useful for both regular users and developers.
Residential proxies, used for scraping and hiding nefarious activity, are rising as bots now generate more internet traffic than humans. The article explores the technical and ethical challenges, including payment protocols like Cloudflare and Coinbase's x402 standard.
Mozilla and Cloudflare are collaborating with other browsers on a new initiative to combat bot abuse while preserving user privacy, proposing a rate-limiting approach with anonymous vouching instead of invasive verification methods like CAPTCHAs or Web Environment Integrity.
An analysis of the growing prevalence of AI-generated content on the internet, discussing the 'dark forest theory' and how tools like Polsia automate massive-scale posting, flooding public spaces with slop and driving users into walled gardens.
Bots now generate 57.4% of worldwide HTML requests, surpassing human traffic. This shift undermines traditional web monetization models based on human attention, as AI agents read pages without clicking ads or generating measurable engagement signals.
Cloudflare reports that bot and agentic AI traffic has surpassed human web traffic, marking a significant shift in internet usage patterns driven by AI agents.
For the first time, automated bots have surpassed human-generated traffic online, marking a significant shift in internet activity and raising concerns about cybersecurity and authenticity.
Discusses how aggressive AI scrapers are disrupting wiki operations by imitating human traffic and using residential proxies, drastically increasing server costs and causing service instability.
Recreation.gov, the federal site for public land reservations, is plagued by bots and technical failures, making fair permit access nearly impossible for regular users.