Cloudflare CEO Accused of Misrepresenting Bot Traffic Data by Cherry-Picking Metrics
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Summary
The article accuses Cloudflare's CEO of misleading the public by claiming bots surpassed human traffic for the first time in internet history. The author argues this is a "trick" because the CEO selectively used HTML-only traffic data (which shows higher bot percentages) while ignoring the all-traffic dashboard number, which actually shows human traffic still constitutes about two-thirds of all traffic. The article frames this as a deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
Key quotes
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The claim is false as stated: …bots passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history.
The Cloudflare data shows online traffic is still about two thirds human, not the higher amount being claimed.
The CEO ignored the all-traffic number, on his own dashboard, and instead published the HTML-only number as a fact about the whole internet.
That is a lie about what the data shows.
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