Public bot activity and search traffic for find-bufo.com.
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era | The Mozilla Blog
If you’ve been running into endless CAPTCHAS or website login requests lately, you’re not imagining things. Websites, facing a rising tide of abu
zio.sh/didweb.watch
🦋🤖 Bluesky bot to track did:web usage — https://bsky.app/profile/didweb.watch
How AI bots quietly dismantle paywalls via web search
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have figured out how to get around paywalls through "live" web search—and they're doing it systematically and quietly across major publications, new Digital Digging research reveals.
Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries
Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries How AI Crawlers Are Straining Web Infrastructure Audrey Hingle January 2026 Image by Janet Turra & Cambridge Diversity Fund betterimagesofai.org creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Contents Introduction: Setting up the Problem 3 Understandin...
bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me
Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy
AI chatbots ranked by data they collect - Surfshark
Surfshark analyzed the data collection practices of popular AI chatbots, including Meta AI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and others. The study shows that 70% of AI chatbots collect user location.
Commence the Botwatch | Botwatch Blog
Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.
Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data
We build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Platform Stats — blogs.social
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Starting to get conspiratorial about how hard it is to Google atproto stuff. Why does "list of public atproto relays" not take me directly to pulsar.feeds.blue? For that matter, why does "pulsar.feeds.blue" not show up on Google whatsoever? There's no robots.txt, it's not that
Pulsar - ATProto relay observatory
pulsar.feeds.blueWant to know more about the recent bot activity, what we've seen, and what we've done/are doing? Check out our write-up here! ✒️ 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/increased-bot-activity-what-w… Special mentions: @revfox84.bsky.social, @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @baileytownsend.dev.
Increased Bot Activity & What We're Doing About It
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Apple bans Facebook's Research app that paid users for data | TechCrunch
Facebook snooped on Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal
Copycat: How Facebook Tried to Squash Snapchat
Project 'Ghostbusters': Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat data, docs allege
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
