Topic

Bot mitigation

Techniques for distinguishing automated clients from people, including CAPTCHAs, invisible browser challenges and server-side token verification.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

A Cloudflare challenge can score as a performance regression in overnight Lighthouse runs

PageSpeed Insights needs the origin HTML before it can measure anything, and a scheduled run that gets a bot challenge instead still produces a number. Cloudflare's own documentation decides which allowlist can fix it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+14
Incentives45
Confidence40

build1 publisher

An edge rule of 3 requests per 10 seconds still admits 1,080 login attempts an hour

SyllogOS layers a Cloudflare Free rate limit, Turnstile and an in-app limiter in front of one login form. The author's own published thresholds show which of the three actually caps a patient attacker.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption15
Hype gap−12
Incentives35
Confidence58