BREAKING: Ukrainian strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a dramatic decline in automated online activity, particularly on Reddit, per Euronews
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Yandex is Russian Google. Of course it runs lots of bots. If you took out Google, lots of bots would disappear as well. This is how search engines work: they scrape the web. All the time.

Oct 12, 2026 · 4:38 PM UTC

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Kind regards Bot
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Cool story bro
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Scraping web and engaging in information warfare are 2 different things
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Exactly. And the post tries to conflate those. “Automated activity” does not equal info warfare.
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Extremely real person
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Exterminator! You missed a cockroach.
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