Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

sznio

I don't use X myself, but my friends told me there's a noticable reduction in hateful tweets, at least in the Polish sphere. Much less comments blaming Ukrainians for everything wrong with the world.

komali2

This is being documented across the internet. Pro AfD posting plummeted and pro Trump posting plummeted. It makes me wonder whether activists should have been targeting these operations sooner. I had no idea they were so centralized.

jdw64

Looking at the destruction of Yandex data centers, these days it shows how terrifying drones are as weapons. I'm curious about how to defend against such drones. Are kamikaze drones a method of exploding on a target after image learning?

ron_k

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619

xvxvx

For those claiming a drop in hate speech on social media, I’ve yet to see examples of this. Plenty of claims, no examples.

lsofzz

According to Cloudflare, US still accounts for majority of the bot traffic though. https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots?dateRange=12w#bot-traffic-... Yandex is just a drop in the ocean bud.

gritzko

This graph shows that Yandex Web crawler farm was hit. The other option, it was shut down to accommodate more critical services that got hit. (I worked for Yandex 20 years ago, one crawler guy was in the same room.) Not sure if troll farms got affected in any way, that is a different business entirely, no overlap. The interesting aspect is this: Yandex was taken from its owners semi-consensually. Similarly, the original owner of the troll farms was blown up in a business jet. He staged a mutiny cause his dirty bloody business was about to be taken from him non-consensually. Some other large non-consensual takeovers unfold for 5 years, soon 6. What an appetite!

yokoprime

An important detail for those, like me, who have't kept up with the news: this was drone strike against a yandex data center, not cyber attack.