Every time there's a Hacker News thread about bots, bot detection, or CAPTCHAs, a familiar complaint shows up: people using VPNs, ad blockers, Firefox forks, or privacy tools get bombarded with CAPTCHAs or blocked entirely. It feels like modern anti-bot systems are punishing users just for trying to protect their| The Castle blog
Browser automation tools like Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium are widely used for testing, scraping, and other automation tasks. However, because they were not designed with stealth in mind, they often expose detectable traces. These can include headless browser markers, inconsistencies in JavaScript APIs, or synthetic input patterns, all of which| The Castle blog