The report found that bot attacks increased by 167 percent in the first half of the year, with a staggering 291 percent increase in intelligent bots.

New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic::undefined

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      They go, “hey bot, would you please clip me some Safeway coupons?”

      Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors and their bot newspaper, then clips up some coupons and hands them to OP.

      It’s a pretty endearing sight.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        1 year ago

        “Father, what is my purpose?”

        “You clip coupons.”

        “… Oh my god…”

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors

        But digitally.

        and their bot newspaper,

        But digitally.

        then clips up some coupons

        But digitally.

        and hands them to OP.

        But digitally.

        They said we’d all be living in a VR world by now back in the 90s!

    • JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      TamperMonkey (I’ve been told to use ViolentMonkey instead as TamperMonkey isn’t open source) and the script here. Then you can run a script to periodically log into your account in a headless browser and click the button. Unfortunately there’s no coupon API so this is the best solution I could think of.