How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. (Slashdot)

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How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. – Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this article from New York magazine: In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered… Hucksters infected 1.7 million computers with malware that remotely directed traffic …