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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Blocking bots is hard, because with some work they can be made to look like users, down to simulating curved mouse movements from one button to the next if you are really ambitious.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 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.