this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it for all the web? I would never imagine that bots could use more traffic than all people watching videos around the world.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

skimming the "report", which is actually just advertising for a security company, i don't think they actually define web traffic anywhere. they might mean HTTP requests, sessions, unique IP addresses, who knows.

if it's based on actual observations it probably doesn't mean throughput.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I have just read in another thread that it's a misleading headline. The actual study mentions only traffic in login pages. Now the numbers make total sense

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

So even when we all die out from climate change events, bad memes will go on. Actually that's weirdly comforting. Feels like a less good version of Walle, or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/

This is what the majority of internet traffic is, and the overwhelming majority of these attacks are botted, no one goes for single-instance attacks.

Edit with better map.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

On a similar note Cloudflare Radar has a fascinating amount of statistics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

or, as we used to say on MeFi: eponysterical