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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  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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