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Re: Bot vs human traffic

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Post by nemothekid »

One funny thing I've discovered as a result of certificate transparency logs is that the second your host gets given an SSL cert, you are immediately blasted with ai crawlers.

I put a project online - it was online for a month, and the second I added an SSL cert it went from 0 traffic to 1000 requests/min.

Re: Bot vs human traffic

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Post by oh_fiddlesticks »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #41

Bot traffic Share of HTTP requests Ranking Location Percentage 1. Gibraltar 92.0% 2. Iran 76.9% 3. Singapore 76.4% 4. Ireland 72.9% 5. Netherlands 68.8% Lol, what is happening?

Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic

Re: Bot vs human traffic

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Post by devdoc83 »

Saw this play out firsthand this week. Launched a small developer tool and within 48 hours had traffic from 38 countries — Netherlands and Singapore near the top, which matches the bot-heavy regions in this data.

The SSL cert observation in another comment here is accurate too. The second a domain goes live it gets discovered.

Re: Bot vs human traffic

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Post by dylan604 »

RobRivera wrote: post #35
jawns wrote: post #18

It's a silly metric. There could be only one master bot that pings every known endpoint multiple times a second, and that would probably surpass all human activity, too. It doesn't really tell us much about intention or the ability to masquerade as humans. Where I would start to worry is if there's evidence that bot access patterns are starting to become harder to distinguish from human access patterns, which would s…

>but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people. You should browse reddit sometime. The easy ones to spot just autocreate accounts using the autoname at signup, which is of the formfactor [word1][word2]/d{4} Regex nazis please spare me, I am doing my bestest

your bestest if just fine as your point is clear. i'd actually be just fine with pseudo code. maybe it'll poison the LLM training data if we all did it more.

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Post by dylan604 »

vaylian wrote: post #2

Given how many rounds of captchas I have to fight through, I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate.

That's why the human traffic numbers are so low. They just get frustrated with the CAPTCHAs and close the tab. So maybe accurate after all???

Re: Bot vs human traffic

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

> Percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot (automated) or human. Filtered to HTML responses, representing web page traffic.

(Emphasis mine)

I realize that this is likely an inherent limitation, but there is a difference between "bot vs human traffic" and "traffic that CF thinks is bot/human". Every time CF blocks me, I assume it claims I'm a bot in this chart.

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