Modern anti-bot systems do not rely solely on CAPTCHAs but on "Browser Fingerprinting." This paper quantifies the specific attributes that distinguish a standard Chrome browser from a "headless" automation instance (such as those used in Selenium or Playwright).
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This paper investigates the collateral damage caused by aggressive anti-bot measures on the accessibility of public knowledge. While services like Cloudflare are essential for mitigating DDoS attacks and malicious scraping, they inadvertently block legitimate research agents (e.g., academic crawlers, Internet Archive bots). Modern anti-bot systems do not rely solely on
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