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DataDome
Company blog · datadome.co · on HN as Benfromparissecurityweb
DataDome is the company blog at datadome.co, writing about security and web. Since 2016, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Behind the scenes of a distributed credential stuffing attack”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link DataDome's blog for its articles on bot detection, residential proxy networks, sneaker bots and AI scraping. It is also cited as a bot-protection vendor in discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-11
- /2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-05-12
- Behind the scenes of a distributed credential stuffing attack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-24
- A deep dive inside a sneaker bot business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-10
- Ever wonder how proxy providers and BaaS providers obtain residential proxies?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
- /bot-management-protection/how-proxy-providers-get-residential-proxies/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-26
What Hacker News says?
DataDome | Paris, France | ONSITE FULL-TIME https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/docs Bot hunters is a full time job! With our proprietary SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. DataDome is a growing French startup pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommerce websites and advertisers across…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots as a story · 285 points
HN discussionDataDome | Paris, France | Full Time | Onsite https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/docs Bot hunters is a full time job! With our proprietary SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. DataDome is a growing French startup pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommerce websites and advertisers acros…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch as a story · 142 points
HN discussionDataDome | Engineer, Data | Paris, France | Full Time | Onsite https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/docs Bot hunters is a full time job! With our proprietary SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. DataDome is a growing French startup pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommerce websites and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted How to Detect Puppeteer Extra Stealth as a story · 24 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite or Remote https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/ Bot hunters is a full time job! With our proprietary SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a growing cybersecurity pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publish…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted How New Headless Chrome and the CDP Signal Are Impacting Bot Detection as a story · 23 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite or Remote https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/ Bot hunters is a full time job! With our SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a growing cybersecurity pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Detecting and tracking Puppeteer extra stealth as a story · 17 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite https://datadome.co Bot hunter is a full-time job! With our proprietary SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a leading cybersecurity company pioneering in bot protection for eCommerce, marketplace and classified websites across the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)”Submitted Ever wonder how proxy providers and BaaS providers obtain residential proxies? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThere are risk services out there. https://sift.com/ Is one you call out to that gives you a risk score. https://datadome.co/ can sit within your cdn layer that does risk assessment.
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on “Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games”Submitted Tracking Modified Selenium ChromeDriver as a story · 15 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite or Remote https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/ Bot hunters is a full time job! With our SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a growing cybersecurity pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted A deep dive inside a sneaker bot business as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite or Remote https://datadome.co/ https://docs.datadome.co/ Bot hunters is a full time job! With our SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a growing cybersecurity pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eComme…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted How to multiply available AWS instances x 200 in 90 seconds (for bot detection) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDataDome | NYC / Paris | Full Time | Onsite or Remote https://datadome.co https://docs.datadome.co/ Bot hunters is a full time job! With our SaaS cybersecurity technology, we detect and manage non-human traffic in real-time to protect our clients’ websites and APIs. Named as a Strong Performer by Forrester, DataDome is a growing cybersecurity pioneering in bot detection and protection for content publishers, eCommer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted Nearly 1/3 of bad bots are now using residential IPs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm not aware of a benchmark, but puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth can be detected: https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/detecting-head... Crawlee does appear to do the basic checks though, like checking navigator.webdriver: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/blob/master/test/browser-po... Last time I checked (over a year ago) I couldn't find any public code to make Chrome/Firefox properly undetectable. That sa…
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on “Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js”Submitted The AI agent economy is going mainstream as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf your IPv4 is shared, it might be because of the other users doing bad things on the same IP. If you have a compromised device on your network, it might be being used as a proxy to attempt logins, or for other uses as a "residential proxy": https://datadome.co/bot-detection/how-proxy-providers-get-re...
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on “Ask HN: Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?”Submitted The challenges of bot detection in extreme situations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBasically, we are using two sort of technics : technical and behavior. Technical : if the UserAgent claim to be a regular browser (let say Chrome 43) we will check on network level if the client implement http protocol like Chrome 43 usually do and on the JS side if the Javascript render is correct for Chrome. In case it's a real Chrome, we will check if the Browser is controlled by automation Tool. Behavior : we wi…
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on “High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic”Submitted Behind the scenes of a distributed credential stuffing attack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMeant to post something like this before. If it’s helpful here’s a pretty decent article on current bot mitigation issues: https://datadome.co/bot-management-protection/bot-detection-...
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on “Ethereum Services Are Centralized”Submitted Chrome's New AI Web APIs Are Enabling Hardware Fingerprinting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting for unprotected websites but it's easy to detect and to block: no valid js, no valid meta header, no valid cookie, suspect behavior... Selenium is a much "elaborated" solution, but still, can be detected most of the time. Disclosure: I'm DataDome co-founder. If you want to detect bad bots and scrapers on your website, don't hesitate to try out for free and to share your feedback with us https://datadome.…
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on “RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper”Submitted The State of Bots 2024: Changes to the Bot Ecosystem as a story · 2 points
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