An anonymous former publishing executive opened up to Digiday about knowingly purchasing bot traffic. According to the exec, the business model for the publication was set up to benefit from bot ...

If you’re like me, there’s a good chance you have a group chat going on Facebook Messenger at all times. And, if you’re like me, you probably talk about going to watch movies with your friends in that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The lights, the toys, the sales: The holiday shopping season is here, and this year we are expected to spend more than a trillion dollars. This would make it the first trillion-dollar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — People trying to snag a new ...

This Christmas, it’s boy vs. bot. Thirteen-year-old John Coleman has tried everything to buy a Sony PlayStation 5. Coleman, from Bowie, Md., spent his summer cleaning and mowing lawns to save up the ...

If you’ve been searching for a PS5 these past months—convinced that the solution to the ennui of lockdown life lies in next-gen gaming—it’s likely that you’ve also made a new, hated enemy: retail bots ...

Bots have a bad rep. Shady manipulators have used these automated computer programs on social networks to spread conspiracy theories, spew vitriol and scam people. But when bots are programmed to do ...

"Random Darknet Shopper" bought a bunch of stuff on Agora, including ecstasy. It's refreshing to hear about authorities actually responding to something like this in a rational manner. If this ...

Marketers assume that the bot detection vendors they paid for can detect IVT (invalid traffic). But those IVT vendors only report a number — 1% IVT — with no supporting detail about which sites or ...

A Redditor has created an automated dip-buying bot that beats dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin by roughly 10%. DCA is the strategy in which investors buy a small amount regularly regardless of price ...

Tickets to the most popular concerts and other live events are often hard to find because of abusive practices by vendors who illegally use computer programs called bots to grab them up, according to ...