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I thought I had 1,087 visitors and 26 leads. 41% were bots and 23 leads were one bot.

I run projectcostestimator.com , a free website-cost calculator with a 9-engine pricing model and an open CC BY 4.0 dataset.

• Projectcostestimator.com found 41% of its 1,087 sessions were from a single bot
• Bot's Chrome-on-MacOS fingerprint generated most false leads
• Author implemented lead counter and blocked abusive API-key endpoint

1h ago ·dev.to

Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros

Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...

1h ago ·phoronix.com

I got tired of cookie banners so I turned my SaaS analytics into a pixel town

I kept staring at analytics dashboards that were just... charts. A cookie consent popup nobody reads, a wall of graphs, and a "MRR" number that's supposed to make me feel something. It didn't.

1h ago ·dev.to

‘Have I Been Flocked?’ Tool Launched as Flock Unveils New Privacy Rules

'Have I Been Flocked?' lets drivers check license plate searches as Flock introduces new privacy safeguards and oversight rules.

• "Have I Been Flocked?" tool launched to check license plate searches in Flock Safety's network.
• Privacy and accountability measures introduced in response to public concerns over ALPR technology.
• Agencies must use Audit Assistance tool and provide case code to conduct searches.

1h ago ·newsweek.com