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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 1 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
1. c64d81744074dfa ◴[30 Dec 24 22:27 UTC] No.42554231[source]▶
Wait, these companies seem so inept that there's gotta be a way to do this without them noticing for a while:

  - detect bot IPs, serve them special pages
  - special pages require javascript to render
  - javascript mines bitcoin
  - result of mining gets back to your server somehow (encoded in which page they fetch next?)