PSA: No, Russian bot traffic has not significantly decreased. Only Yandex’s network is mostly silent, which doesn’t have a huge impact on automated requests from all of Russia.
And neither has much to do with social media bots. Stop spreading this kind of misinformation.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru
Bloody Pink 🩸
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2026-10-11 18:51:10 UTC
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2026-10-11 18:51:10 UTCEvent JSON
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