For context, this is the first link from the top comment of the #2 post on the front page at time of writing, suggesting an alternative to XSLT which is being deprecated from Chrome and Edge.
> “When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became easier to [use] social media platforms. People noticed there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations on social media. Because there were fewer bots, it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from.” | Volodomyr Zelenksy
So he's reporting on what people on social media are saying... which is just continuing the initial misinterpretation of what Cloudflare meant by "Russian bots".
The quoted tweet says that 21-29% of traffic on twitter is bots.
It doesn't say anything about 29% of traffic having actually measurably stopped, does it?
Elsewhere on HN people are pointing out that the "bot traffic" coming from yandex that has stopped is the web scraper bots updating their search engine.
That isn't even the headline for me. This is what I see:
Far-right bot accounts ‘fall silent’ as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
This is the second time today that an article on this subject was submitted to hn with an adulterated title. It's too bad too because it's an interesting subject even without the incorrect/bait titles.
Ah thanks I overlooked that this time. I guess I was still feeling a little unimpressed with the previous post and that influenced my impression of this one.
> As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks.
> Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks
Cloudflare doesn't track twitter posts, does it? But requests to sites on its network. The kind of thing Yandex's search crawlers would be hitting.
Also note (I think) the TH article also initially claimed this was talking about bot posts on social media, but now doesn't?
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