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Where I was working we stopped caring about ips browser etc because it was just a race. What we did was analyzing behaviour of clicks and acted on that. When we recognized it we went on serving a fake page. It cuts down a little bit of costs because it was static pages. In general it took a lot of time for them to discover the pattern and it was way more manageable for us.



We did the same and the bot developers wrote bots that acted like humans. It took them not very long to find out.




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