• JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    So your saying reddit’s activity analytics can’t necessarily tell the difference between human activity and bot activity?

    So the actual number of people using reddit vs bots isn’t very clear. Someone should tell Reddit’s share holders that’s there’s no way to tell if the advertisements are actually being viewed by people, and there’s no way to tell how much the activity reports have been inflated by bots. I bet they wouldn’t like that very much.

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      Always has been. Technically the server sees no difference in what a browser does vs what a bot does: Downloading files and submitting requests.