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...so you're going to write your own HTTP requests? Encrypt your traffic and validate certificates by hand? Toggle in each TCP header from a memory debugger?

Most of the Internet is bots because humans don't actually generate HTTP traffic - they fire up a bot called a "browser" to do it for them. The challenge for anti-spam is to distinguish which bots are currently being directly controlled by humans and which ones are not-so-directly controlled by such. This isn't even a hard line; I've frequently hit Hacker News' bot detection just by upvoting a comment and then clicking reply too quickly.



I really don't understand your comment.

Just so we don't have to argue about what constitutes a bot and what does not I propose we use this definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot




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