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Network
- What it checks
- IP reputation, ASN type, location, request rate per IP
- Does a proxy change it?
- Yes, this is the proxy's job
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TrustpilotWhat Is Bot Detection?
Bot detection is the set of checks a website runs to decide whether a visitor is a person or an automated program. It combines network signals such as IP reputation with client fingerprints, JavaScript challenges and behaviour, then allows, challenges, slows or blocks the request.
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how it works
How bot detection works
No single signal decides. Commercial systems such as Cloudflare Bot Management, Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome and HUMAN score each request on many layers at once and compare it with what they see across millions of sites. A request with a clean residential IP but a script's TLS fingerprint still looks like a bot; a perfect browser on a flagged hosting IP still gets challenged.
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TLS and HTTP
- What it checks
- TLS fingerprint, HTTP/2 settings, header order
- Does a proxy change it?
- No, these come from your client
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JavaScript
- What it checks
- Browser APIs,
navigator.webdriver, canvas and WebGL output - Does a proxy change it?
- No
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Behaviour
- What it checks
- Navigation paths, timing, mouse and scroll events
- Does a proxy change it?
- No
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History
- What it checks
- Cookies, past challenges, account age
- Does a proxy change it?
- No, but IP changes mid-session look odd
why it matters
Why bot detection matters for proxy users
A proxy fixes the network layer and nothing else. Teams that run legitimate automation, such as price monitoring, SERP tracking or QA of their own sites, get further by making every layer consistent than by buying more IPs.
CleanProxies rotating residential proxies give you consumer IPs in 190+ countries with rotating or sticky sessions up to 24 hours; static ISP proxies keep one US carrier IP all month.
Bot detection: what it means for you
- Pick the IP type the site expects: consumer ISP, residential or mobile for sites built for people; hosting IPs are scored lowest.
- Keep one identity per session: the same IP, cookies and fingerprint from login to logout, with a sticky session or a static IP.
- Pace requests like a person or a polite crawler; bursts from one IP trip rate limiting.
- Match the location: time zone, language and IP country should agree.
- Use official APIs where they exist, and respect robots.txt and the site's terms.
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By scoring many signals together: IP reputation and network type, TLS and HTTP fingerprints, JavaScript checks of the browser environment, behaviour such as timing and navigation, and the visitor's history.
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