Bot detection seems like one of the more defensible uses of fingerprinting, and it might become a casualty in this war. If automated bot detection becomes impr

Bot detection seems like one of the more defensible uses of fingerprinting, and it might become a casualty in this war. If automated bot detection becomes impractical, the consequences are pretty negative for users: frequent captchas, login walls, aggressive throttling, mandatory email/SMS validations, and reduced accessibility. Some may suggest that web services should just give up on bot detection, open up all of their private APIs, and accept bots and third-party clients as facts of life. But this idealism is out of touch with the reality of running an expensive, large-scale web service and a customer-facing business.