alexspring

Google propaganda. Botnet proxies, agreed. All residential proxies, dumb. Educate yourself: https://layer3intel.com/blog/measuring-the-netnut-takedown

Yep. They got hacked in the past, 1k+ smartphones reported.

The cost is the attestation keys of a real phone. Once it gets burned, the phone is useless to them.

https://www.penligent.ai/hackinglabs/inside-the-ai-phone-far...

lightpanda is the most detectable thing ever. A custom built browser with fingerprints any serious antibot instantly blocks.

You can build some great anti-bot mechanisms with simple https://github.com/abrahamjuliot/creepjs logic. A normal user will often appear 31% or lower 'like headless score', mobile is a bit different. You'll still have trouble against sophisticated infra: https://x.com/_alexspring/status/2037968450753335617

The only way you can block these "AI" scrapers is a combination of IP filtering (https://spur.us/) and Fingerprinting (https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/).

Things like browserbase are easy to block with this. It's a losing battle though, personally moved entirely to real environments for https://browser.cash/developers

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