2026 Q1 & Q2, The Bad Bots

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Foreword

Executive Summary

Section 1: The Scraper Ecosystem & Proxy Networks

Section 2: The Scale of AI Scraping

Section 3: Referral Traffic

Section 4: Robots.txt and the Bypassing Problem

State of the Bots

2026 Q1 & Q2, The Bad Bots