Topic: bot detection
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Sam Altman: Bots Are Making Social Media Feel "Fake"
Sam Altman expressed concern that the distinction between human and AI-generated content on social media has become so blurred that authenticity is now deeply compromised. He attributed this to factors like users adopting AI-like language, platform engagement incentives, and the rise of automated...
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Google's SearchGuard: Bot Detection & the SerpAPI Lawsuit Exposed
A lawsuit reveals Google's advanced SearchGuard system, which uses real-time behavioral analysis and environmental fingerprinting to invisibly detect and block automated bots attempting to scrape search data. The case involves SerpAPI, a service accused of bypassing these protections, and highlig...
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The Mystery of the Vanishing Captcha
Traditional CAPTCHAs have largely disappeared, replaced by more whimsical and bizarre tests that sometimes involve identifying animals with specific traits or swiping through unusual items. The original purpose of CAPTCHAs was to distinguish humans from bots using tasks like deciphering distorted...
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HUMAN's Page Intelligence: Smarter Invalid Traffic Detection
HUMAN Security's Page Intelligence fills a critical gap in digital advertising by detecting invalid traffic in real-time between user clicks and engagement, complementing pre-bid filters and post-campaign audits. The solution uses a lightweight tag and over 400 algorithms to analyze visitor behav...
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SerpApi Fights Back: Seeks Dismissal of Google Scraping Lawsuit
SerpApi has moved to dismiss Google's lawsuit, arguing Google is misusing the DMCA to protect its advertising business model, not copyrighted works, by trying to control access to public search results. The company's defense asserts it accesses publicly visible data like any user and that Google ...
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AI Bot Surge Ignites Online Arms Race
AI bots are projected to drive the majority of internet traffic, shifting the web from a human-centric to a bot-dominated landscape and introducing new challenges beyond copyright. A technological arms race is escalating as sophisticated AI bots increasingly circumvent website security to scrape ...
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OpenClaw Users Accused of Evading Bot Detection
A tool called Scrapling, designed to evade bot detection like Cloudflare, has surged in popularity, particularly within the OpenClaw AI community, for extracting website data. Cloudflare is actively countering such scraping tools, framing it as a cyclical battle and reporting it has blocked hundr...
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Track GA4 Traffic from Perplexity & ChatGPT
AI-powered browsers like Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas are challenging to track accurately in Google Analytics 4 due to inconsistent referral data, often appearing as referral or direct traffic. These AI browsers can distort advertising budgets and analytics by mimicking human behavior, lead...
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End Scalpers' Reign: A 2026 Internet Revolution
Scalpers use automated bots to buy high-demand items like tickets and collectibles, creating a predatory secondary market that inflates prices and excludes genuine fans. Effective countermeasures include legislation to cap resale prices, lottery systems with bot detection, and made-to-order model...
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