Platform Bot Problems

The cluster focuses on the rampant presence of bot accounts on social platforms like Twitter, debates over fighting versus monetizing bots, and strategies for detection and mitigation including API fees and captchas.

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datadome.co AI LLM i.e E.g EverQuest PR GitHub API USD bots bot accounts euros traffic 175 scammers ai users people paying

Sample Comments

paconbork Nov 2, 2022 View on HN

If you can't stop the bots, might as well monetize them?

draw_down Sep 23, 2016 View on HN

A lot of everyone's users are bots.

barbazoo Jul 24, 2022 View on HN

Well, it's clearly not working since there are millions of bot accounts.

gootler Sep 13, 2021 View on HN

Too many bots, that's the problem.

mozman Jun 22, 2023 View on HN

Think about why the bots exist - it's almost always data theft or other schemes to abuse your API to profit. Taking money from your pocket.

uoaei Dec 23, 2024 View on HN

Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...

stereoradonc Jul 24, 2022 View on HN

There's a likelihood that 99% of accounts will be bots :-)

daghamm Apr 19, 2024 View on HN

Why add more bots to a platform already overrun by bots?

throwaway4aday Oct 19, 2023 View on HN

no idea where you're getting that idea from but it's wrong, that is not how you generate revenue from bot accounts if that was the goal

jjeaff Jun 27, 2017 View on HN

More likely hundreds of millions are bots.