Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump
The article accuses Cloudflare's CEO of misrepresenting data regarding bot traffic to promote the company's paid services. It argues that the CEO conflated HTML-only traffic with total internet traffic to falsely claim that bots have overtaken human users.
Why it matters
Accurate reporting on internet traffic and AI scraping is critical for understanding the health of the web and the business models of infrastructure providers.
A magic trick is a trick. It misrepresents reality. What the Cloudflare CEO published as bot traffic increasing, is a trick. He misrepresents reality.
The article uses highly charged, accusatory language ('lying', 'trick', 'misrepresents reality') to attack a corporate executive.
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