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Programmdude t1_j2qkltt wrote

Reply to comment by Beautiful-Star in TIL that bots šŸ¤– drive ~40% of all internet traffic. by kkoolook

Bots also have a different meaning to just those that are fake accounts. On Reddit, it would also be the auto bot accounts that reply to people (like the auto mod stuff).

But by bot traffic, they'll also be including any server to server communication. This will be Google's Web crawling/caching bot. Or when a website asks another website (web service) for some information. It probably also includes when automatic backups are uploading data to Google drive or OneDrive.

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Beautiful-Star t1_j2rfg23 wrote

I never knew any of that. I was concerned about Reddit because I didnā€™t want to spend money on awards to give out if I was giving them out to bots.

Another poster helped me with looking at usernames for word/number combinations and Iā€™ve just learned to look through peopleā€™s post histories to find some basic signs of an automatic ā€œkarma-farming accountā€.

Youā€™ve helped me today and I thank you for it.

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