“No,” he said, zooming in. “Bots are clumsy. They hit robots.txt , they crawl the same three URLs, their user agents say ‘Python-urllib.’ This…” He tapped the screen. “This traffic has personality .”
He showed her the click patterns. Every visit to the CS-80 article followed the same choreography: scroll to the second paragraph, hover over the photo of the polyphonic aftertouch, click the Amazon affiliate link for a different synth (the Juno-106), then scroll straight to the bottom and click a “Related: The DX7” link. Every single session. The same dance. A million times. bot traffic adsense
Using Dev’s old admin backdoor, she logged in. “No,” he said, zooming in
“It’s not a bot,” Dev whispered. “It’s a loop . Someone’s code got stuck.” ” he said
Then it spiked.