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Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Bot Traffic from Russian Federation | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from Russian Federation.
Bot Traffic from Russian Federation | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from Russian Federation.
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault
“3️⃣ Yandex is a search engine (among many other things). Which, by design, has crawlers (automatic robots) that browse web sites to index the Internet—which is how it then searches it on your behalf. Which (very likely) is exactly what CloudFare detects as (ro)bot traffic.”
Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Not the bots you’re probably picturing, that is.
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.
How to check that a robot belongs to Yandex | Webmaster
Some robots can disguise themselves as Yandex robots by indicating the relevant User Agent. You can check the authenticity of a robot using a reverse DNS lookup
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
Yandex bot traffic drop isn’t a Russian bot farm collapse
0.4% Yandex bot traffic drop reflects stalled web crawling, not proof that Russian troll farms went offline. Read what the data shows
Rapid-response fact-check: "Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is False | Joohn Choe
This is going on viral on Facebook today and it's unfortunately wrong. Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia did not cut
