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
In every HTTP request, the user agent header acts as a self-declared identity card for the client—typically a browser—sharing information about the software and platform supposedly making the request. It usually includes details like the browser name and version, operating system, and rendering engine. But crucially, this identity| The Castle blog
Bots are often used to conduct attacks at scale. They can be used to automatically test stolen credit cards, steal user accounts (account takeover), and create thousands of fake accounts. Detecting bot activity has traditionally relied on techniques like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), CAPTCHAs, and static fingerprinting. However, with the| The Castle blog
This is the third article in our series on anti-detect browsers. In our previous article, we analyzed Undetectable, a widely used anti-detect browser. In this article, we present two effective methods for detecting scripts—especially anti-fingerprinting scripts—that have been injected through the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) in Chrome and| The Castle blog
