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Title: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on August 23, 2025, 01:49:31 AM

question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?

iirc, up until quite recently the most online ever was about 1k less?

did we get a mention somewhere recently?

or is it just increased ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc activities?

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on September 01, 2025, 02:20:56 AM

just noticed that a few hours after i posted the above commentary on the increased traffic from ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc, the ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc traffic doubled. ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc is ruining the open web for everyone everywhere.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: Paul_123 on September 01, 2025, 08:55:22 AM

It’s bots.  There is not an easy way to remove them from the online count

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on September 02, 2025, 09:43:50 AM

imho i think it is better that forum members/visitors ARE able to see the bot traffic

i would not want it hidden at/on any website, in fact it should be actively called out by all the websites under siege.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: Paul_123 on September 02, 2025, 10:01:59 AM

Most of them are well behaved, honoring rate settings.   I’ve not seen it really affect the load of the server.

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on September 02, 2025, 06:36:16 PM

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/1820249/are-ai-web-crawlers-destroying-websites-in-their-hunt-for-training-data

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on December 21, 2025, 06:11:10 AM

wowza!

Most Online Ever: 16857 (December 09, 2025, 12:37:20 PM)

anyone know the _what/why_ regarding this recent rather large spike in MOE traffic?
(might be ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc using residential based proxies which would massively increase the "individual" entity traffic based on originating ip addresses)
(re: residential proxies, see for example _randomly_referenced_ oxylabs.io and www[.]webshare.io)

Title: Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
Post by: gadget42 on December 29, 2025, 10:09:49 AM

after reading a recent commentary that included information about aisuru botnet here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q3/#aisuru-breaking-records-with-ultrasophisticated-hyper-volumetric-ddos-attacks

more searching resulted in a couple pieces from krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/

snippet tidbit(mostly because an earlier post referenced oxylabs.io and www[.]webshare.io):

Quote

Today, Spur says it is tracking an unprecedented spike in available proxies across all providers, including;

LUMINATI_PROXY    11,856,421
NETNUT_PROXY    10,982,458
ABCPROXY_PROXY    9,294,419
OXYLABS_PROXY     6,754,790
IPIDEA_PROXY     3,209,313
EARNFM_PROXY    2,659,913
NODEMAVEN_PROXY    2,627,851
INFATICA_PROXY    2,335,194
IPROYAL_PROXY    2,032,027
YILU_PROXY    1,549,155