bot detection

  1. bmo_zx1

    How Cloudflare detects fake mouse movements (and how to fix yours)

    Been looking into why my Playwright scripts keep getting flagged even with stealth plugins. Spent some time analyzing what behavioral detection actually checks and thought I'd share what I found. Most bot mouse libraries generate movements using randomized Bezier curves. The problem is that...
  2. KarmaLabs

    Reddit Banning My Accounts in Bulk, Even Human Ones

    Hey BHW Fam, So here's what just happened and it might be a wake-up call for anyone running Reddit growth, engagement, or upvote strategies. Over the past few hours, one of my Reddit accounts got permanently banned from multiple subreddits all within a 2-hour window. No spam. No obvious...
  3. RedditDudette

    Using Phone as a mobile hotspot proxy

    Hello, I know people have turned extra cell phone lines into mobile proxies. Am I ok to run a hotspot from an extra phone and just turn the internet on and off to get a new ip? I am running android on a pixel phone in the USA. Will sites be able to see that I am running a hotspot from a phone...
  4. B

    Facebook Marketplace Listing Bot

    I am looking at developing a listing bot and just wanted to pick some of yall's brains regarding their bot detection/shadow bans. I have it geared towards listing cars so alot of the info is the same and images are pulling from the same source, so I am looking for some insight of what not to do...
  5. noellarkin

    Bot Detection Table (ChatGPT)

    Was having a chat with GPT4o about bot detection and asked it to give me a speculative table of weights for bot detection on a hypothetical social media website. Variable Reasoning Weight IP Address and Geolocation Bots using proxies or...
  6. G

    How widely used is browser fingerprinting?

    Hey guys, I'm new to BHW and relatively familiar with creating software automation bots (although never for scraping or social media). I wanted to ask if anyone had any insight on which sites nowadays use browser fingerprinting to detect and connect bot accounts. I know the big socials like...
  7. noellarkin

    Bots - Behavioural and Feature Detection

    Some observations on how anti-bot systems seem to be evolving. I'm only going to talk about browser automation based bots on desktop computers, I have almost no experience with HTTP request bots or mobile automation. - Behavioural detection Bot actions are our main achilles heel, bots are often...
  8. noellarkin

    Content Scripts to edit browser fingerprints

    Trying to write some greasemonkey scripts to replace browser plugins, this one being for fingerprint parameters. Example, for screen resolution: Object.defineProperty(Screen.prototype, "width", {get: (() => 1366).bind(null)}); Object.defineProperty(Screen.prototype, "height", {get: (() =>...
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