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The Internet has a second audience

Photo: Cloudflare Blog

What happened

For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people. We read the articles, saw the ads, and bought the subscriptions. Bots were always there, but they were mostly large, automated operations that didn't view ads, pay for anything, or read in any meaningful sense. That's changing fast. At the end of 2024, Cloudflare handled an average of 63 million HTTP requests a second . Today, it's a…

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Why it's spreading

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