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BotDefense is leaving Reddit(arstechnica.com)

posted 1 year ago

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Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

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Hikermick@lemmy.world

79 points

1 year ago

Reddit will probably appreciate the extra traffic bots will create

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Wodge@lemmy.world

43 points

1 year ago

Until that IPO happens and investors want an audit of bot activity vs daily active users and then it all goes south from there.

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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world

8 points

1 year ago

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What’s this “from there”? It’s already heading south and they haven’t even had the IPO yet.

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Jaxom_of_Ruatha@lemmy.world

9 points

1 year ago

Maybe, maybe not. Advertisers are definitely going to want to know how many of their impressions are actual people and how many are bots.

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Nightweb@lemmy.world

7 points

1 year ago

I fear your right, seems the kind of scummy I’ma god-complex type thing spez would do

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