The Internet has a second audience

The Internet has a second audience For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people. We read the articles, saw the ads, and bought the subscriptions.

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• For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people.
• We read the articles, saw the ads, and bought the subscriptions.
• Bots were always there, but they were mostly large, automated operations that didn't view ads, pay for anything, or read in any meaningful sense.
• At the end of 2024, Cloudflare handled an average of 63 million HTTP requests a second .
• Today, it's almost doubled to 115 million, with peaks above 150 million.
• Over the past year, daily requests from AI agents on our network grew by more than 1,700%.