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90% of my "human" visitors were bots

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A developer running a small self-hosted site found that about 90% of the "human" visitors counted by their nginx and InfluxDB analytics were bots, including a Go-based scraper using a stale Chrome user agent and headless browsers that loaded CSS and JavaScript.

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