Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

“First time”

The graph seems like it only goes back to April 27 and on that day it was 57% bot…

Automated systems that don’t sleep and are often programmed to aggressively scrape and are limited only by compute capacity outstripped humanity? I am not surprised by this at all.

For the first time? No way. People were saying this 5, 10, 15+ years ago.

Dead internet theory gaining more credibility with every passing day.

Dead internet theory

Given how most of the internet is on mobile, I wonder how much that would skew this.

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

If they were truly this accurate at identifying sources of bot traffic, you'd think they'd be better at blocking them without inconveniencing the rest of us.

“First time”

The graph seems like it only goes back to April 27 and on that day it was 57% bot…

Maybe "first time on a weekday"? Asit seems it's been above 60% every weekend since they started monitoring it.

I think it’s meant as “for the first time in history..”. Not today in particular, but as a milestone.

For the first time? No way. People were saying this 5, 10, 15+ years ago.

Dead internet theory gaining more credibility with every passing day.

Dead internet theory

Given how most of the internet is on mobile, I wonder how much that would skew this.

If they were truly this accurate at identifying sources of bot traffic, you'd think they'd be better at blocking them without inconveniencing the rest of us.

Maybe "first time on a weekday"? Asit seems it's been above 60% every weekend since they started monitoring it.

I think it’s meant as “for the first time in history..”. Not today in particular, but as a milestone.

Automated systems that don’t sleep and are often programmed to aggressively scrape and are limited only by compute capacity outstripped humanity? I am not surprised by this at all.

We're the "retail users" of the Web.

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

Captchas are part of the traffic. ;)

You have to fight, for some bots it might not be a real fight anymore...

We're the "retail users" of the Web.

Captchas are part of the traffic. ;)

You have to fight, for some bots it might not be a real fight anymore...

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Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

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