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Answering this question was recently a 1B acquisition for F5 with their purchase of Shape Security. Will be interesting to see what happens to other industry p
by brunoTbear 7y ago
Answering this question was recently a 1B acquisition for F5 with their purchase of Shape Security.
Will be interesting to see what happens to other industry players like PerimeterX. Distil was eaten by the corpse of Imperva, and I don't see Akamai making strong headway with Botman.
Google is going after this too with reCAPTCHA. The HN reaction to that has been interesting.
It's interesting to me how many comments in these threads talk about scraping as the issue with bots. Every sale I saw when I worked on this problem was related to credential stuffing. Seems the enterprise dollars are in the fraud space, but the HN sentiment is in scraping.
Funny how disconnected the community here can be from what I saw first-hand as the "real" issue. Makes me wonder what other topics it gets wrong. Surely my area of expertise isn't special.