The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.

    Is it just me or is this article trashy. It lists scraping as bad and suggests it’s immoral. It also lists account management as bad.

    I got a feeling powers that be will attempt to make scrapping illegal under the guise of AI fears. I don’t imagine that many companies like scrapers that collate prices of their products into a website that let’s people compare prices against other stores. I don’t imagine the real bad actors like scrapers that archive internet content into things like the way back machine. It makes it harder to delete that late night drunken rant, the poor PR choice or the political flip flopping or makes it easier to capture real bad activities in the act before they delete their activity after lighting fires everywhere

  • markr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    At some point in the near future social media will be chatbots all the way down.

    • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      And the ISP companies complain about how they “couldn’t handle the additional bandwidth” of things like streaming services as they became more popular - at least not without charging everyone more. Come to find out it’s bots consuming the bandwidth. But hey, why waste an opportunity to profit.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        They’d complain even if there was literally nothing to point at. Why waste an opportunity to profit?

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I use flip which let’s me know when discounts are available. Also camel camel camel scrapes amazon. Scraping is pulling information off websites.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.

      Bad bots do it too, but they are bad