Browser automation, headless browsers, and how the major anti-bot vendors detect and block scrapers.
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Cloudflare's Bot Management sits in front of roughly 20% of the public web — including Stockx, Indeed, G2, Glassdoor, Instacart, Kickstarter and Zoopla — and it's the WAF most deve.
PerimeterX, now branded as HUMAN Security, is one of the more elaborate anti-bot WAFs on the market.
DataDome fronts roughly 1,200 enterprise sites — Etsy, Hermès, Leboncoin, Tripadvisor, Reuters, MarketWatch, WSJ, Wellfound — and is known for catching automation that passes Cloud.
Akamai Bot Manager is one of the oldest and most widely deployed anti-bot WAFs on the internet, sitting on Akamai's CDN edge — already the largest CDN in the world.
Kasada is one of the more distinctive anti-bot WAFs because of how its client-side challenge is built: a custom VM executing obfuscated bytecode, paired with a real proof-of-work c.
Imperva — historically known as Incapsula — is one of the longest-running anti-bot WAFs on the market.
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