LCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoDigg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spamwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1363arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1358arrow-down1external-linkDigg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spamwww.theverge.comLCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·edit-223 hours agoThe majority of “new users” was bots twenty years ago. How was this news to these chuckleheads?
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·22 hours agoI mean it’s worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-222 hours agoYeah, so it REALLY SHOULDN’T BE A SURPRISE
minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·22 hours agoBut now bots pass captcha and use a real browser. So… it’s not easy removing them.
The majority of “new users” was bots twenty years ago. How was this news to these chuckleheads?
I mean it’s worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.
Yeah, so it REALLY SHOULDN’T BE A SURPRISE
But now bots pass captcha and use a real browser. So… it’s not easy removing them.