Damn is interesting to see how far BrightData has come. I used to know them as the guys from Eastern Europe running the Hola VPN guys. They went from a simple VPN provider to selling residential/data center/rotating proxies to selling unblocker APIs for popular antibots. They

Does anybody really code 8 hours a day?

There are 3 types of antibots companies. The first type is the one that serves you pictures of animals asking you which one lays eggs and/or asks you to find all the squares that are part of a fire hydrant. Eventually, these type of antibot companies will start serving SAT

Rust + WebAssembly here I come. Thanks ShapeSecurity for helping me make the change!

Are there any public open-source deobfuscators for Akamai's JS script or do I have to create one? I have been searching for the past few days on github and I can't find anything that can deobfuscate this kind of script gist.github.com/pinyugi/be9364…

Every time I deobfuscate some new script and look at the contents being more than 50% dead-code, I ask myself what kind of gas were the developers smoking was it some Za or some NOS? Dead-code does nothing to impede someone from understanding your code, it just adds more

ChatGPT,Claude, Cursor etc. are all great at helping new comers build their first web scraping or bot script using Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright. However, what happens when they hit a Datadome, Incapsula, or Cloudflare block? What's next do you roll-up your sleeves and learn

Today, as I was working on a new VM tracer for a super hard antibot, I came across this new anti-bot that I have never seen before. My interests were piqued and I quickly went to their website to see what all the buzz was about. I quickly went to their docs to understand what

I decided that Babel sometimes isn't the right tool for the job when it comes to speed. Here is a deobfuscator I was working on for Akamai's Javascript. github.com/BottingRocks/A… I'm in the process of switching everything over to tree-sitter for a much faster parsing both in

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