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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by thirsteh on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:19PM (#7940302)
So this is a piece of JavaScript. What happens when a bot blocks that JavaScript from running and/or emulates it but returns a result that indicates the user is human?
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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by ryan-c on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:11PM (#7940683)
Posted this elsewhere in the thread already, but bots that don't run our code can be detected by comparing our traffic numbers with the client's traffic numbers.
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Re:A Startup With a Way to Filter Botnet Traffic Gets Funding by ganeumann on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:05PM (#7940638)
It wouldn't be hard to make the javascript look like another ad tag. You could probably even serve the WhiteOps js through an ad tag or tag container.
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