kagi.com referrer being abused by bots

In my last article, I said how I noticed that this blog is being visited by the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, and how I believe that these are just bots faking the referrer field. After another week of glancing at my analytics, I suspect that kagi.com referrer is being abused by bots as well. From around the mid-October, I started to receive much more traffic with the source of kagi.com. The traffic is diverse, and comes from different countries and different devices. However, the pattern has changed around November 3rd, where the majority (81%) of the traffic is now coming from one place: Singapore. The US is taking 5% of the traffic, and a bunch of other countries take <1%. If I filter specifically on Singapore, ALL the traffic is coming, allegedly, from Chrome, on macOS, on a Laptop device (viewport width between 992 and 1440 according to my analytics). All the traffic is split between 3 articles: I am a Prompt addict from October 27, The bots situation is crazy from…

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