Insight into LinkedIn's Anti-Bot / Information Scraper Technology

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• Aug 16, 2016

• #1

Recent article explain how LinkedIn sues 100 information scrapers gives some insight in how their anti-bot tech works:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/16/linkedin_sues_100_info_scrapers_safeguard_fail/


Worth a read for sure

 

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extremeboy

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• Sep 12, 2016

• #2

informative.

 

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TheVigilante

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• Sep 12, 2016

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Hmm...there are product owners on this forum that need to be wary of this, we already got like 1-2 guys selling LI scrapers on this forum. But the good thing is they are using proxies, does that still make one safe enough to fall into this trap?

 

Univa

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• Sep 12, 2016

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Interesting read but I don't think they could do much harm.

 

BloodyNinja

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• Sep 12, 2016

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Their anti-bot system sucks. I bet after acquisition of Linkedin by Microsoft it will suck even more. Everything MS touches turns into shitty bloatware.

 

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extremeboy

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• Sep 12, 2016

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abhi007 said:

Hmm...there are product owners on this forum that need to be wary of this, we already got like 1-2 guys selling LI scrapers on this forum. But the good thing is they are using proxies, does that still make one safe enough to fall into this trap?

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