Bot Detection Strategies
This cluster focuses on methods to detect, block, and deter bots from websites, debating the effectiveness of tools like Cloudflare Bot Management, honeypots, captchas, and proof-of-work, while addressing challenges from sophisticated bots and potential countermeasures.
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All bot detection is doomed to fail, but you can make it more expensive for the bot authors.
actually this is good because it helps to mitigate bot somehow.
I don't quite see the connection. How exactly does this deter bots?
Protect yourself from sophisticated bots, which can mess up your traffic reports
Anyone have any experience with this? Is there nothing but upside in blocking these bots
To prevent bots from causing bandwidth costs to be insane?
I'm currently looking into this with a twist for bot deterrence.
Devil's advocate - would it not then be pretty easy to engineer malicious bots to avoid detection?
There are some limits, but as a human user you likely won't hit it. They are good at catching bot traffic.
Why detect "bots" when you can block them using captchas/proof-of-work solutions. Curious to know your use case for detecting bots.