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I've heard them say that they have COVID-19 and they're trying to "stop the spread". I guess Biden's policies are kind of biting us in the ass now...

That's interesting that the name of this 3rd party's company is anonymous.

Data is the new petroleum

It's pretty cool but it does hog CPU a bit.

Interesting!

I was building a browser automation for a website, and kept hitting these unexplainable roadblocks where my requests would yield different responses. I wanted to know why and wrote a basic script that was able to detect that the website was using geolocation block (e.g., "You can't view this content in your country") and my browser automation was egressing from an edge function on a server in a Baltic country.

Once I was able to make this mental connection, I tweaked my browser automation so that for that particular web property I would use a USA-based IP address. After making this fix, the browser automation was able to run successfully!

I think there may be other uses for BotScope, but that's how I started going down this road. Thx for asking!

Yea, a few actually.

Azure Front Door, ModSecurity, Fastly Next-Gen WAF to name a few.

I built a platform to detect any kind of anti-bot / anti-agent tooling that’s installed on a website. Cloudflare Bot Manager has the lion's share of the market but there are a litany of other ones offered by Akamai, Vercel, Amazon, and DataDome that have significant representation too.

In total, there's about 30+ different products that BotScope can detect. The entire catalog is here: https://botscope.org/abaam

A few technical details you might find interesting:

- Scans are full browser webpage loads. Not just `curl` requests.

- Scans are executed from datacenter IP addresses to closely mimic automated bot/agent webpage access.

- There isn't any kind of pentesting or destructive stuff happening... just pure recon!

- The product has API keys, and a hosted MCP server so scans can fit into agent/CI/internal-tool workflows too (I realize how meta this is).

Curious for your thoughts & feedback!

MSNBC commentators today said some things today that were so horrendous.

Indeed.

Charlie Kirk never really presented him this way but he was the founder & head of one of the largest think-tanks that is up there with Heritage Foundation. TPUSA was responsible for translating conservative values to Gen-Z/YA who were an all-but-forgotten demographic by mainstream GOP.

Precisely, it is Orwellian to attempt to misdirect people using language.

Who’s Dale??

Yikes... looks like Apple sun is setting. This cannot be allowed to happen.

why are you guys acting like elon is the bad guy?

Dark patterns abound. Maybe not a scam, but some deal of white collar fraud.

C'mon... this is pretty hyperbolic.

I mean, these "kids" are rockstars. Why are they being juvenilized by the Wired writer?

The crypto part isn’t something you turn off. It’s buried in a menu somewhere. For all intents and purposes, it’s a pretty elegant UX.

What are your qualms with Brave Browser?

If you enjoy high-end scotch, you're a good person in my book.

huh i thought everyone already knew this

Wow, very cool. I was looking for something like this

Pretty rad! Thx!

Dad??

I think you have the most feeds I've ever heard someone having.

Does elfeed work well enough that you don't get anxiety that you might be missing a good article?

Whoa... that sounds like a pretty compelling tool... does it use AI to create topic-specific folders?