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@nixCraft why do people keep sharing this. Web traffic being automated does NOT mean dead internet bots.

It's just web scrapers and normal automation - do we imply that web shouldn't be automated? Am I supposed to do manual labor at all times and write down page results with pen and paper or smt?

Lazy, misleading journalism 🙄

@wraptile But not all of the bots are there to crawl for legitimate use such as search engines. Many are scraping data to train AI models and other stuff.

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@fury999io believe it or not that's legitimate and perfectly legal :)