Cloudflare Reveals How Bots and Governments Reshaped the Internet in 2025 (nerds.xyz)
(Monday December 15, 2025 @05:40PM (msmash)
from the closer-look dept.)
- Reference: 0180391339
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/1830212/cloudflare-reveals-how-bots-and-governments-reshaped-the-internet-in-2025
- Source link: https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/cloudflare-2025-year-review/
Cloudflare's [1]sixth annual Year in Review report describes an internet increasingly shaped by two forces: [2]automated traffic and government intervention , as global connectivity grew 19% year over year in 2025.
Google's web crawler now dominates automated traffic, dwarfing other AI and indexing bots to become the single largest source of bot activity on the web. Nearly half of all major internet disruptions globally were linked to government actions, and civil society and non-profit organizations became the most attacked sector for the first time.
Post-quantum encryption crossed a significant threshold, now protecting 52% of human internet traffic observed by Cloudflare. The company also recorded more than 25 record-breaking DDoS attacks throughout the year.
[1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/cloudflare-2025-year-review/
Google's web crawler now dominates automated traffic, dwarfing other AI and indexing bots to become the single largest source of bot activity on the web. Nearly half of all major internet disruptions globally were linked to government actions, and civil society and non-profit organizations became the most attacked sector for the first time.
Post-quantum encryption crossed a significant threshold, now protecting 52% of human internet traffic observed by Cloudflare. The company also recorded more than 25 record-breaking DDoS attacks throughout the year.
[1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/cloudflare-2025-year-review/
Government will not be able to resist (Score:2)
by oldgraybeard ( 2939809 )
the Control and Propaganda capabilities. There will come a time when the old TV joke about all these channels and noting worth watching. Will apply to an Internet of walled gardens, buried in slop.
Re: Government will not be able to resist (Score:2)
by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )
We're already there.
To paraphrase..
57 billion channels.. and still nothing on.
Actually, we were there a few years ago. I keep telling people, just learn guitar.
Hahahahahahaha (Score:2)
by SlashbotAgent ( 6477336 )
> Nearly half of all major internet disruptions globally were linked to government actions
LOL! Good one.
I guess that they discarded all the "incidental" outages directly caused by Cloudflare themselves.
Re: (Score:2)
by Tschaine ( 10502969 )
+1, Insightful
For me it's what we learned about Twitter (Score:2, Insightful)
For a brief period of time Twitter was revealing the IP address locations of users and virtually every right wing influencer was located in Russia or Pakistan with a smattering of them in India.
Surprisingly I don't think they were very many out of China.
These were accounts pretending to be Americans to incite Americans into right-wing politics.
And there were a *lot* of them.
I don't think I would give up internet anonymity for the sake of shutting down those accounts. And besides it would onl
"how bots and governments reshaped the internet" (Score:2)
And yet somehow the comment that I'm replying to was deemed off-topic.
Re: (Score:1)
> For a brief period of time Twitter was revealing the IP address locations of users and virtually every right wing influencer was located in Russia or Pakistan with a smattering of them in India.
Why did you exclude Palestine supporters from that list?
Re: (Score:2)
Because there weren't very many of them and most of them were out in the open. Also none of them were directly interfering with my country's politics.
There's a huge difference between somebody trying to support a political cause in their country and someone trying to encourage right-wing extremism in another country because they know right wing extremism leads to bad outcomes
Also Trump fucks kids. I mean you're not seriously asking that question in good faith so I thought I'd bring up the fact that Tru
Re: (Score:2)
No, you just want to create a fake narrative that conservative influencers are inorganic. When I point out that X showing country of origin also exposed leftist fakery, which is counter-narrative to the point you were trying to make, you got upset and started spewing nonsense. Do better next time.