IntroductionIn 2025, a headache-inducing problem arose for engineers using Python for scraping and browser automation.

A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best ...

Bad bot traffic continues to rise year-over-year, accounting for nearly a third of all internet traffic in 2023. Bad bots access sensitive data, perpetrate fraud, steal proprietary information, and ...

The numbers paint a grim picture. DataDome's 2025 Global Bot Security Report, which tested nearly 17,000 websites across 22 industries, found that only 2.8% of sites achieve full protection against ...