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Challenges Scaling a Service to Evade Anti-Bot Systems

TalkinRussianat HighLoad++ 2024 · 2024-12-02..12-03· [security, distributed-systems]
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Examines the ongoing arms race between anti-bot defenses and services that try to bypass them, describing the current state of that battle. Discusses tensions between data openness and intellectual property while illustrating problems encountered when scaling systems that attempt to evade bot-detection technologies.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 3:34Browser automation
  3. 10:03Fingerprinting and consistency
  4. 16:03Canvas and WebGL fingerprinting
  5. 18:33Exotic fingerprinting
  6. 21:49Anti-bot evasion
  7. 29:18Q&A: CAPTCHA costs
  8. 33:35Q&A: CAPTCHA solving
  9. 35:47Q&A: Anti-bot responses
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