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You do know that bot blockers keep track of metrics besides user agent and IP address? Hotels and concert ticket selling websites use some of the most aggressi
by jgalt212 9mo ago
You do know that bot blockers keep track of metrics besides user agent and IP address? Hotels and concert ticket selling websites use some of the most aggressive bot blockers out there.
- kccqzy 9mo agoI do. Most of these bot blockers block bots because of scale: these bots operate with superhuman speed and their traffic comes from all sorts of IP addresses. Tools like Anubis appear because such bot traffic dwarfs human traffic. And they typically have fake User-Agent headers set to a browser while their TLS/HTTP fingerprints would suggest they are made from curl or the requests library. This is different. There is no scale. The bot’s browsing session exactly replaces a human session. The browser is real.
- jgalt212 9mo agoIf there is no scale, there is no point of using OpenClaw. Furthermore, it seems OpenClaw uses headless Chromium (which is trivial to detect).
- kccqzy 9mo agoWell I read the article. It seemed to me that the way the author is using OpenClaw is trivially done manually. The author just didn’t want to use the computer and preferred to chat with an AI. You might think there is no point and I would agree.
- brdd 9mo agoit uses a real chrome browser window (that i can see when i remote desktop into the mac mini) that's been very good so far. re: scale, is it that this whole project is worthless bc nobody needs it, or is it that its so good that scale is a requirement? this is a project i built for myself, i'm not commercializing anything