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wegbier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago

Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it!)

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Detect and crash Chromium bots with one weird trick (bots hate it!)

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wegbier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago
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Disclaimer: If you're here for the holy grail of bot detection, this may not be it, unless your UX strategy involves surprise popups and your marketing strategy involves blocking Google crawlers. We recently stumbled across a bug on the Chromium bug tracker where a short JavaScript snippet can crash headless
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    Doesn’t affect AI scrapers much but stuff like yt-dlp.

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