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Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

FYI 90% of those bots are scrapers and natural automation tools which are harmless.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Yeah, and bots are software setup and configured by humans to do things for humans. It's still kind of humans using the internet, just not actively at the keyboard.