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How strong is the Datadome?

Datadome is a Real-Time Bot Protection service. They are very proud of their bot detection technology and their blog has tons of information for the customers and scrapers. I will share my viewpoint as someone who has been writing scraping scripts since I was a kid and also worked on several security aspects of different projects. Web scraping and bot-protection, both are arts. They are two sides of the same coin.  You need to collect data from others while protecting yours.  It’s a bit of a grey area if you ask me 😏. Who is DataDome? Big companies like TripAdvisor, Rakuten, classmates, Celio, Fnac, etc use Datadome to protect their website. Anyone who tried to create a bot for these websites had a little bit of hard time playing cat and mouse all the time. The Datadome stuff regularly reads and analyses puppeteer-stealth and all different anti-bot detection posts on the internet, then applies it in their system. A pretty effective way to deal with the bots. 😎 They say they...
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