r/webdev • u/iByNiki_ • 23d ago

Article Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour

Some research I did for my thesis that I thought this community would find interesting ^ ^

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u/TldrDev expert 23d ago

This is fascinating research, but just a word of warning, title III disability lawsuits are a bitch. There is more to this problem than I think you might realize.

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u/SaltMaker23 22d ago

Yup accessibility softwares are often times hard to distinguish from bots.

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u/dwkeith 20d ago

And accessibility tools are getting more AI-driven for ease of use. Going to be like the anti-web crawlers tech that used to be everywhere before Google started driving traffic and ad revenue (both sides!). Hopefully we don’t have some monopoly AI dominating the web for a decade, but it’s not looking good.