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by palmotea 86 days ago
> Well, IoT traffic peaked "human traffic" already long ago, Netflix etc. eat a lot of bandwidth, etc., so I am not sure where the news is exactly.

I think there's different kinds of traffic: raw packets and user-like interactions. I think the OP is not very clear on the line, but it's significant.

If most of the traffic on the internet akin to shell scripts making bulk FTP transfers, it's probably not news. If most of the comments being made or most of the streams on Netfix are being consumed by bots, that's pretty big news.