Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
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Crystal ball: Just a couple of months after Cloudflare revealed that bots have officially surpassed human traffic online, the company has given its view on what things will look like in five years. It's not good news for us fleshy meatsacks: non-human traffic could be up to 1,000 times higher than human traffic.
CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web will look like in the future.
"If the current trends continue, we think in five years, non-human traffic will be as much as 1,000 times as much as human traffic," he said.
"In other words, humans will be a rounding error on the internet, not because human traffic goes down, but that's just...
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