Roll Your Own Bot Detection: Server-Side Detection
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The article discusses implementing server-side bot detection, with the discussion touching on the challenges and potential approaches to distinguishing between legitimate and malicious traffic.
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davydm
3 months ago
cool article to go through (I happen to be working on some hcaptcha integration, so it's right in my field of view), but with all the logic spelled out - surely clever automated attacks will be crafted to pass all these checks, by altering the perceived browser environment to produce the "shape" that's expected?
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