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by pierrefar 3406 days ago
> a lot of bots still don't execute JavaScript

I operate a service that measures this (see another comment on this discussion), and all I'll say is you'll be very surprised how many bots actually execute JS, especially stealth bots. You have to be careful either way.
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peterhartree 3406 days ago
> all I'll say is you'll be very surprised how many bots actually execute JS

Interesting. Do you have any numbers you can share?

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pierrefar 3406 days ago
I don't have access to the raw log files from the customers, so can't give you a percentage. All I'll say confidently is that my service processes a lot of bot traffic that needs to be filtered out before reporting.

BTW, are you the same Peter Hartree on this Segment thread? https://community.segment.com/t/1889n1/how-common-is-client-... It would appear we've crossed paths before on this topic. Please do email me if you want to talk properly. That Segment thread has my email.

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benologist 3406 days ago
It's very easy to navigate sites programmatically including script execution:

http://zombie.js.org

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