New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

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    11 months ago

    Well, I mean, if a bot protection company found malicious activity in account creation, I’m assuming they stopped the account from completing it…?

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      11 months ago

      I’m assuming they stopped the account from completing it…?

      They could have let it continue to monitor it, in a honey-pot sort of way, to learn more about the bot, and it’s network.

      But I was asking towards intent, not success. Why would people have bots create accounts and then do absolutely nothing with those accounts afterwards?

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        11 months ago

        I mean, that commenter said the headline was a misinterpretation because it’s not 73% of web traffic, but only account creation attempts.

        If the attempts are stopped, and the bot fails in creating an account, it isn’t able to post/comment/do whatever it needed to do, and isn’t contributing to “web traffic” as much as the other 27% of real people (or, well, uncaught bots).