This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl ...

Most scraping failures are predictable once you look at the numbers. JavaScript powers over 98% of websites, so non-rendering fetchers naturally miss content. About half of global web traffic is ...

When you see the dog-eared girl with the magnifying glass, you're just encountering an Anubis checkpoint. Anubis is a ...

You click, you scroll, then everything stalls. A puzzle appears. A timer ticks. Suddenly, you’re proving you exist online. Across major news sites and ...

Your screen stalls and a warning flashes. In the split second before the headline loads, the door to the site snaps shut.

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go?

Most teams tune scrapers around code, not the network. The blockers you hit first are shaped by how the web is actually ...

Proxies block malicious bots, prevent data scraping, and detect proxy-aided fraud by filtering traffic and enforcing ...

As bots continue to evolve, any defense that relies on signatures, static rules, or exposed client-side code will inevitably ...

A premium feature of the ChatGPT Atlas browser is an “agent mode” that accesses the laptop and effectively clicks around the internet on the person’s behalf.

Abstract: Web scraping is a powerful technique for extracting data from websites, and it has numerous applications in fields such as data science, market research, and business intelligence. In this ...