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Bot traffic has passed human traffic online, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince

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For the first time in history, 2 months

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ago, automated traffic, bot traffic,

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agent traffic online passed human

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traffic. And if it continues to

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accelerate at the rate that we're

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seeing, in 5 years it will be 1,000

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times more automated traffic online than

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there is human traffic online. In other

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words, humans will be a rounding error

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on the internet.

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Two months ago marked a historic milestone where automated bot traffic surpassed human traffic on the internet, with projections suggesting bots could outnumber humans by a factor of 1,000 within five years.

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