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@dougmadory A similar drop is visible in @cloudflareradar traffic graphs: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=netflows&timeCompare=1&loc=ua&asn=as14593&dt=2026-02-01_2026-02-07#result
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David Belson
@dbelson@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Former Head of Data Insights at Cloudflare
I stared at data about the Internet
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Joined December 28, 2018
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My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
Shutdowns, power outages, and conflict: a review of Q1 2026 Internet disruptions
https://blog.cloudflare.com/q1-2026-internet-disruption-summary/
(via https://mastofeed.org)
Interesting observation: Sunday-Thursday each week, between 0900-2000 UTC, Googlebot appears to ramp up its crawling of plain text files. A similar pattern is visible for JavaScript files as well, Monday-Thursday, between 1600-1200 UTC.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/google?dateRange=28d#content-type
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@mneylon What's the deal with the "Domain Name Registration" link at the end of the first paragraph? Seems auto-injected and out of place. Same with the one at the end of your bio block.
My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
Redirects for AI Training enforces canonical content
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-redirects/
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@jtk@infosec.exchange I wasn't aware of the larger context until just now...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/05/iran-kamikaze-dolphins-pentagon/89946988007/
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@thorsheim@mastodon.social @internet_nl@mastodon.nl @ripencc@mastodon.social @cloudflare@noc.social Glad that the Radar data was useful. Would love to see slides/video once you've done the presentation. (I'm the Radar PM.)