How Anti-Bot Systems Work: What Cloudflare, DataDome and Akamai Actually See
Enterprise anti-bot products score every request across four layers — IP reputation, network fingerprints, browser fingerprint, and behaviour — then c…
Field notes from a multilingual research collective on infrastructure, protocols, and operating constraints.
How to give a browser automation session a proxy, including authenticated proxies that Chrome will not take from a URL, in Playwright (per context), Puppeteer (page.authenticate) and Selenium (options plus a workaround), and what a proxy do…
Working proxy configuration for requests, httpx and aiohttp with the current parameter names (httpx uses proxy=, not proxies=), SO…
An ISP proxy is an IP registered to a consumer internet provider but hosted in a datacenter: residential reputation, datacenter sp…
HTTP/2 tunnels through any proxy because it rides on TCP inside CONNECT; HTTP/3 runs on QUIC over UDP, which HTTP proxies cannot c…
Enterprise anti-bot products score every request across four layers — IP reputation, network fingerprints, browser fingerprint, and behaviour — then c…
TLS fingerprinting identifies the software behind an HTTPS connection from the handshake itself, before any request is sent. JA3 and JA4 hash it into …