The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I use flip which let’s me know when discounts are available. Also camel camel camel scrapes amazon. Scraping is pulling information off websites.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.

      Bad bots do it too, but they are bad