Same here. Most of the bots didn't even load anything besides the html, no js execution, no clicks...

I understand the mobile bot farms monetization (publish app with ads, have bot farm click on ads in your app).

I don’t understand the reddit ad clicks though. How does the bot farm profit? Is there some way to earn money hosting reddit ads?

I dont understand either. Maybe depleting budgets of competitors?

Mouse-click (left) and turn the mouse.

The old net is still there to a degree, but we live in pre-Alta Vista times again. It is hard to find. (I know as I run an old-school Forum and RPG-Game for more than 20 years now.)

All. People forget hiw performant the LAMP stack is.

And you do not notice that you do.

What would be an example of LLM generated fiction I've likely already read? I'd be very surprised that it's so pervasive that you can make blanket statements like this.

You couldnt put ads that easily in rss feeds.

We've seen the start with "hydration breaks" and a 30 minute half-time.

AI is just a tool and it not even matters how you use it.

Optimizing for the last microsecond and then use Python?

Why?

This is a portable format that is used for interchange. The performance may matter elsewhere in your system and yet you may still want to create/access protobuf-packaged data?

Are the only two options SIMD in hand-rolled assembler and unbearably slow?

Often Python, with the most critical parts written in a compiled extension module (like this one), offers acceptable performance with enormously less complexity than writing the whole thing in a compiled language.

This. Yes. This is why I clicked on the comments. Exactly

A simple trade off. Guaranteed malware from microsoft, or potential attacks that you can mitigate with firewalls, airgaps or Anti-Virus software.