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The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!

„There are malicious actors who repacked freeware and shareware written by other people to conduct drive-by downloads of the Infatica peer-to-business (P2B) service“ But IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) this also explains the explosion of bot traffic that really cripples a lot of smaller services (like my forgejo instance, that I had to make non-public). And when I see that quite some of them rely on injecting SDKs into 3rd party apps to “extend” their “Reach” and fill their pools of “residential proxies”, I would call out these companies for distributing malware and creating botnets.

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