Surely I don't need to explain how headless browsers work, bot proxies and distributed crawlers to you do I? If you haven't experienced this first-hand, I can understand. Maybe it warrants a blog post. But I can assure you, these don't work at scale, they might only stop the "less sophisticated" bots and maybe (just maybe) some unwanted spam.

> You are asserting that they don't work without explanation or evidence.

Oh, no, that isn't how it works — you made a claim first (albeit indirectly), with no evidence. It's on you