Bot detection guides
Practical write-ups on how automated traffic actually reaches your site, what the signals look like, and why the industry's default answer stopped working.
All guides
Bot detection without CAPTCHAs: what actually works
Why the challenge stopped being a defence, which signals replaced it, and what an honest invisible-detection setup looks like in practice.
Credential stuffing: why your login looks fine and still leaks
The attack that succeeds without ever tripping a rate limit — what it looks like in your logs, why the usual controls miss it, and what actually catches it.
Residential proxies: why your IP blocklist stopped working
The commodity service that turned every attacker's traffic into ordinary consumer traffic — where the addresses come from, why blocking them is a trap, and what to score instead.
Stopping scrapers without blocking Google
How to tell a crawler you want from one you do not, why user-agent checks are worse than useless, and what to do about the ones that are simply better behaved than your rules.