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    Discussing strategies for detecting AI agents and crawlers has its apocalyptic comedy. How many humans are bots, and bots humans? If captchas are unsolvable and work unprovable, then you are a bot. But guess what? I’m not smart enough to play captcha!

    So I’m a bot (that’s a joke) and technology works in unwitting ways. The web wants smart humanoids not dumb humans — it’s robots.txt not humans.txt, silly.

    I can’t believe you’re not a botter? People are machines!

    Related; a developer creates an friend. You are impressed and buy the thousand dollar one time licence. Your developer friend chats with you from the comfort of a phone with automated assistance. I can’t believe it’s not AI?

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    Remember deep linking? That is, if you’ve ever done computing/science history. Deep linking was a nefarious act and for ultra brief periods (in some places) making a link (like this) was link stealing.

    Basically, homepage links were a–ok, but deep links were bad, really bad, because customers skipped the front and arrived at the exact (product) page. Businesses died overnight (the hypo theory).

    Deep linking is smartphone marketing lingo now and very much desired. My hunch is that something analogous to taking a screen shot will be the modern equivalent of that unworkable controversy.

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    Did you know that cPanel has a back end user–space API? I’ve yet to see a web front end user dashboard that’s reliable and consistent.

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    Some of you were curious. Text assistants and bots are booming, as shovelers seek the god oracle and magnum opus. Here’s the numbers for a naked robots.txt. Inferences, up to you.

    7,151,956 8,800,740 × 100 ≈ 81.27 %
    (1) Approximately (at least) 81% of requests are machine generated
    In (30 day) levels of aggression, with the most aggresive/inefficient crawler at the bottom;
    1. Applebot/0.1 [20.1 ]
    2. heritrix/3.4.0-20200304 [21.8 MiB]
    3. YandexBot/3.0 [28 MiB]
    4. GPTBot/1.0 [30.1 MiB]
    5. IonCrawl [31.6 MiB]
    6. CCBot/2.0 [40.6 MiB]
    7. DataForSeoBot/1.0 [51.2 MiB]
    8. SeznamBot/4.0 [58.6 MiB]
    9. facebookexternalhit/1.1 [64.1 MiB]
    10. Google-Read-Aloud [86 MiB]
    11. PetalBot [91.3 MiB]
    12. Barkrowler/0.9 [98.6 MiB]
    13. SemrushBot/7~bl [141.1 MiB]
    14. BLEXBot/1.0 [152 MiB]
    15. AhrefsBot/7.0 [159.5 MiB]
    16. MJ12bot/v1.4.8 [285.2 MiB]
    17. bingbot/2.0 [373.4 MiB]
    18. Googlebot/2.1 [535.2 MiB]
    19. Bytespider [543 MiB]
    20. DotBot/1.2 [806 MiB]
    21. Amazonbot/0.1 [2.6 ]
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