Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

AI bots and scrapers could soon overtake human users on the internet Publishers are battling with dwindling click-through rates robots.txt instructions are largely being ignored New data has claimed ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...

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