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b0a04glyesterday at 6:40 PM1 replyview on HN

why is bot detection even happening at render time instead of request time. why can't tell you’re a bot from your headers, UA, IP, TLS fingerprint. imo making it a surveillance. 'you're a bot, ok not just go away, let’s fingerprint your GPU and assign you a behavioral risk score anyway'


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n2d4yesterday at 6:47 PM

It's really hard to detect it at request time. It's practically trivial for an attacker to fake headers to resemble a real browser.

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