Are the “50% of Internet Traffic is Bots” Headlines True and if so How Big a Deal is it?

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I ask because it seems like it would be really bad but I don’t see much talk about it. I do, however, see talk about anonymity being banned from the internet and it being a bad idea. Would a social media site or other such sites be rid of a bot problem by making users ID themselves?

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It’s probably more than 50%, but that doesn’t necessarily make it a big deal. *Someone*, some real people, set those bots out to do something. Just because they’re having a bot do the web scraping, or posting content across all their social media sites at once or whatever instead of doing it all manually doesn’t mean there’s not a human initiating it and a human wanting it done.

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