Kinda. I often read my email on my phone while working on my desktop. (Or visa versa). In these situations, a code is always better. I hate the links personally.
Ragequitting is one way to exit a process, but just not going to the next step from distraction is surely more common.
The original discussion was about clicking links vs reading and entering the code in sign-up confirmations. The former takes less steps and is easier to complete. Power users with unusual habits might disagree. But if they complete the sign-up anyway, it makes more sense to focus on regular users.
Switching to no confirm obviously changed this to 0% drop off of people who clicked the link, but the number of people who clicked was the same.
It was curious to me why people wouldn’t go through with the confirmation step, but never learned why. We just learned that for some reason more people click once instead of twice.
So it doesn’t matter to me if they were bots or not.
For example, 100 users clicked on the first link, 80 completed, and had normal account activity (clicking on stuff, uploading and downloading things, etc).
100 users clicked on the second link and then had normal account activity.
Maybe they were all bots, but they seemed human based on the “normal activity.”