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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ardi60@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] gmg@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If really bots are being used for this, will that also contribute to the traffic metric like a normal user would?

no: bots generally use the API and, even if they went through the web ui, bot traffic doesn't generally trigger tracking (you could write a bot that does that, but it would be extra work)

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

The point made is that it would be bots used by Reddit to trigger tracking specifically to inflate stats.