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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by eli on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:15PM (#7939862)
My personal experience with comment/forum spam bot networks is that at least 90% do not understand javascript. The ones that do tend to have extremely realistic traffic patterns and the ability to solve captchas. I suspect those are actually real people with incredibly crappy jobs, not super-intelligent Selenium-powered bots.
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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by paulgb on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:23PM (#7939909)
Comment/forum spam is different game than botnet ad fraud. The latter executes JavaScript by design since it's often necessary to load the ads.
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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by acfou on Monday June 30, 2014 @02:05PM (#7966534)
see the charts from Incapsula in this article which show a third of the bots are not executing javascript https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140623200557-8...
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