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Nkosilathi Nyoni
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2mo ago
We Built a Bot Detection Engine Because Our Own Marketing Data Was Bad
... were running campaigns, watching our click metrics climb, feeling pretty good about performance. Then we started digging into where those clicks actually came from. Half of them were bots. Not simple ones either. Headless browsers mimicking human behavior perfectly.
Selenium
scripts automating clicks at scale. Click farms using mobile devices. Advanced stuff rotating IPs, spoofing geolocation, faking mouse movements, generating realistic referrer patterns. Fingerprinting evasion. Timing tricks. Some were so good they looked completely human. We realized most link tools ... ... just count clicks. They don't ask if those clicks are real. So we built something different. We analyze every single click in real-time against 100+ bot detection signals. We're looking for browser automation flags,
Selenium
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