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Who are they?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by bantam65, Nov 28, 2019.

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  1. bantam65

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    Ive just logged in and seen that I'm the only forum member on .... but 68 "guests" and 7 "robots".
    Who or what are these guests and robots please?
     
    #1 bantam65, Nov 28, 2019
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    Guests are people not logged in or registered members

    Robots are tracking bots that are not real people

    Internet bot - Wikipedia
    An Internet bot, also known as a web robot, robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.
     
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    #2 king karl, Nov 28, 2019
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  3. bantam65

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    Ta.
     
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    And then there is @Fordy117@Fordy117 who talks out of his bot.
     
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    Bots are small programs run by companies for data, They crawl over websites like spiders recording and sending the metadata to whoever launched them, They record your IP and then whoever runs them can send adverts to your web browsing pages or sell the data to others, (simplistic explanation )
     
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    Sneaky little feckers huh?
     
    #6 bantam65, Nov 28, 2019
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    Hate to be this pedantic, but what you’re describing are tags. Presumably there will also be tags on this site for analytics purposes and to track user activity. I can’t remember if there’s a consent platform on this forum either and I can’t be bothered to check, but they wouldn’t be able to collect personal information post-GDPR without consent. IP address would be a big no for some companies, as it’s often considered personally identifiable information.

    Bots don’t track the behaviour of individual users, they do crawl for meta-data though in order to build indexes of the internet.
     
    #7 Dionysus, Dec 13, 2019
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