The Escalating War Against AI Scrapers and Residential Proxy Networks

An Update on the scraper situation

The scourge of AI scrapers has intensified, with attackers using compromised residential devices to flood websites with traffic. While some operators are purely criminal, others like Bright Data disguise their networks as legitimate services. We are fighting back by optimizing our infrastructure and avoiding intrusive CAPTCHAs, but the arms race continues as shadowy entities race to harvest data for their own models.

"These tools are seen as weapons, and there is an arms race underway. The Internet as a whole is caught in the crossfire."