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Re:Detecting PhantomJS Based Visitors by pikzen on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:15AM (#9714768)
Every single method relies on detecting something sent by PhantomJS. The author even admits that it's spoofable in the first few tests, but then the 4 last do not have this mentioned. Forking PhantomJS to send out data that looks like a normal browser would take ten minutes.

I'm not sure what the point of this is. An honest title would be "detect phantomjs by trusting the client". It's completely stupid.

Re:Detecting PhantomJS Based Visitors by harryf on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:35AM (#9714828)
To me the most promising approach would be entropy detection. Crawlers have less entropy than humans