‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
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The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.
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