Bot traffic plunged to near 0 following the strike on its Vladimir data center

Hacker News Sunday 11 October 2026, 13:00 UTC By PLenz 1 min read

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Post Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 perevaa.bsky.social did:plc:exkwti3p75fr75vko3typ65c And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services.

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