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A comment on Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026.

Re:Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agen... by conception on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:31PM (#50175342)
Based on trying to buy anything retail that is scarce, bot detection systems are definitely not working. I wonder how their system would do against https://refractbot.com/ or other popular retail bots.
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Re:Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agen... by routerl on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:30AM (#50176824)
To be fair, most bot detection can't and isn't trying to catch 100% of bots. Generally the idea is to prevent repeated abuse, rather than stop every single instance of it.

In the case of the scalper bot you've linked, the goal of bot protection would be to make the bot's transactions so computationally expensive/slow that they miss out on most of their intended purchases.

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