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Meta’s AI bots drain publisher pockets with 9 billion Q2 2026 requests at host expense while returning ZERO traffic — as ChatGPT claims 88% of AI referrals
* DataDome analysis claims agentic traffic has surged by 45% in Q2 2026 * Meta AI bots have grown over 163% on the previous quarter * The analysis was conducted by bot management and agent control platform DataDome If you run a website, every crawl costs bandwidth, resources, logging, and creates CDN transactions,