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  londons_explore
  Yandex is Russian Google.Of course they have bots... That's how you index the web.If we took Google offline I bet there would also be a reduction in bot traffic from them too!Indexing is also probably a low priority task, so if half their datacenter capacity is taken offline, their bot traffic probably reduces by more than 50%.
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  throwaw12
  Someone needs to learn how to read the Bot Traffic page.That is a drop in traffic specifically from Yandex bots (which includes their crawlers and other apps hosted in their DC)Now compare it with Bot Traffic in:* Russia: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d* Europe: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/europe?dateRange=7d* Worldwide: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots?dateRange=7dDip is barely noticeable even in Russia.Its like saying, "API requests are completely down" (and small disclaimer: only from your server, because your server is down)
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  timr
  Isn't this showing the percentage of bot traffic from the Yandex IP range?If so, it isn't particularly surprising that the line would go down.EDIT: yes, it is. Looking at the same graph for all of Russia, and there's no discernible pattern:https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7dsame for the 48h view:https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=2d
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  schleck8
  The HTTP traffic from Yandex is down to ~ 0 % after the third strike, after the first two strikes already degraded it. I wonder how this looks like at the network level because their search page still serves, but presumably their crawler is inactive nowEdit: Here is some more info, they do have availability issues as is to be expected> Because three of its primary facilities were knocked offline within four days, Yandex’s failover mechanisms broke down[1][8].> Outages have cascaded across Yandex Go (taxis), Yandex Pay, food delivery, smart home platforms, internal logistics, and third-party corporate services hosted on Yandex Cloud[2][7]. Problems have spilled into neighboring countries using these systems (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Serbia)[2][7].Edit 2: Here is the Yandex Cloud status page, their GCP/AWS equivalent. The entire compute core is offline, and even worse, Cloud Backuphttps://status.yandex.cloud/ru/dashboard> ru Compute Cloud, ru Kubernetes, ru PostgreSQL, ru ClickHouse, ru MySQL, ru YDB, ru Kafka, ru Application Load BalancerInterestingly, Yandex tells its users on the status page to switch to competitors Selectel, K2Cloud, and VK Cloud. Which will probably be hit next
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  f311a
  I can’t believe there are so many dumb comments in this thread. All it shows is that crawling from Yandex search engine stopped from one Yandex data center ASN.No one runs opinion/malicious bots from data center IPs that people mention here.Did people actually stop thinking?
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  r721
  *Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic from AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLCUPD Definition of bot traffic from Cloudflare's glossary:>Bot vs. human traffic>The percentage of HTTP requests classified as bot versus human, based on bot scores. Requests with a bot score between 1 and 29 are classified as likely automated (bot), while requests with a score of 30 or above are classified as likely human. For more information, refer to Bot classes.>By default, Radar shows bot vs. human traffic for requests to HTML content. This filter is meant to represent traditional web traffic by excluding API calls, asset requests (images, scripts, fonts), and other machine-to-machine requests.https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/glossary/#bot-vs-hum...https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/
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  pluc
  That's some intense mitigation from Cloudflare
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  LiamPowell
  Everyone is mentioning crawlers, but wouldn't most traffic from a datacenter's ASN usually be bots just in general given that there's not many humans there to generate human traffic?
• karol
  Yandex is reporting an outage for some services. https://dzen.ru/news/story/75e4b917-952d-5304-a9b4-70e5dc1fb...
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  ericpauley
  Interestingly most traffic coming out of this AS was actually UDP: https://dashboard.terracenetworks.com/sources/asns/13238Pretty benign AS as far as actual exploit or malicious crawling is concerned.
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  bhouston
  The US is still responsible for almost 50% of traffic of which the top are Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cloudlare.https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
• tkrl-pskl
  Apart from the correct argument that a search engine like Yandex will have crawlers, I would not be surprised if Western AI companies also used Yandex to scrape covertly.Nvidia tried to pay off the Russian Anna's Archive for stolen data:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...It would not be a surprise if similar deals have been reached with Yandex.But this is a nice demonstration by Ukraine that all our internet problems are caused by large data centers, wherever they may be located.
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  speckx
  I have to wonder what will happen when the remaining 6 data centers get hit as well. It's bound to happen.
• beaker52
  It’s not really surprising that bot traffic originating from a network went away when _all_ traffic originating from that network stopped.
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• pKropotkin
  Could be just crawlers
• accountrequired
  When Brazil and Afrinet? :P
• modzu
  propaganda
• fHr
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  salvuccio
  Low-IQ Americans will think these bots are X accounts posting memes against Democrats, which is why the media is astroturfing this news to target American liberals. In reality, most of these bots are just scripts performing normal enterprise jobs, but most people know nothing about how the world works.
• dzink
  Now check how many open models search Yandex when asked for something.
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  bamboozled
  I'm going to be really interested how much this cleans up the internet, I mean the damage is done if you read comment sections on youtube etc, but let's see how long the BS persists.
• anon
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  WiSaGaN
  isn't this only counting russian origin already?
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  surfingdino
  So, is sending hot hate towards a bot farm going to be a paid service on Cloudflare now?
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  toomuchtodo
  Cloudflare should consider donating to the Ukrainian military for the public service they are performing.
• dintech
  Oh no, how is Trump going to win the midterms now?
• rvz
  “AI agents” is just a fancy rebranding of “bots” with some “intelligence”.
• andrepd
  Now do OpenAI's dc...
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  TacticalCoder
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• bearjaws
  Someone needs to inventory all the accounts that go dark on social media so we can flag them going forward.
• k__
  Yeah, I noticed the overtone window sliding back from the right.
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  blingo2665
  An eye for an eye for the Russians. I love western imperial propaganda though, and how HN so eagerly amplifies it. There’s something self-fulfilling about willingly becoming a foot soldier of the Empire.Here's to a world where the West is monolithic, and may Iran, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine be only be the beginning. And may every new crusade for freedom and democracy leave behind another Gaza, in pursuit of upholding human rights and civilizing the world.