A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques
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·June 24, 2025osigurdson
I needed a new github account the other day. The "are you human tests" were so hard that I almost gave up. I think a new way to do this will be needed soon.
laurent_du
Does anyone know of a good reference on the topic of fingerprinting?
ghxst
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/ https://github.com/abrahamjuliot/creepjs
Usually my go to. The readme, source code and GitHub issues are great source of information, and the website itself is useful to test against.
edit:
For anything network fingerprinting related, especially censorship related I usually browse https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues
keysdev
https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private
Recently used DDG browser it just cant get some sites to clear! Try the flame button. But still logged in after few browser data clearing.
Are company resorting to this kinda tactic to keep user remembered. Its a major booking for lodging site!!!
Qubes OS seems more and more attractive.
yellow_lead
> Orchestraion frameworks
Small typo here
ape4
I liked the depiction of different TCP SYN packets ;)
I'm curious about how this world will evolve in the era of AI agents/MCP. It is not entirely unlikely that AI agents will have access to limited wallets etc to facilitate a broader set of use cases. In that case, a one shot solution to bot vs. human may not make sense, and a more nuanced human/bot-we-like/bot-we-don't-like may be needed by corporations. This would esp be the case for unofficial MCP servers that would use technologies like headless browsing etc to support an API.