Detecting proxys can't be that hard? Can it?

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Behavioral analysis is an interesting approach to detect bots. It surely is not the panacea for bot detection, but it certainly is an useful extension in your bot hunting tool belt.

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TCP/IP fingerprinting is as old as the Internet itself. But this technique seems to have lost it's relevancy in our modern times. However, with the rise of Proxy and VPN Providers, TCP/IP fingerprinting becomes interesting again from a security perspective.

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In this blog post I will demonstrate how it is possible to detect several scraping services: luminati.io, ScrapingBee, scraperapi.com, scrapingrobot.com, scrapfly.io.

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In this blog post, I am talking about my several year long experience with web scraping and common mistakes I made along the road. The more I dive into web scraping, the more I realize how easy it is to take wrong decisions when scraping a site. For that reason, I compiled a list of seven common mistakes in regard to web scraping.

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Android mobile devices give to any website device orientation and device motion data. This data is quite sensitive in nature and should not be granted to websites without obtaining explicit user consent.

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