[glenngillen]

Usually via javascript. Many of the credential stuffing and similar bots need to run headless browsers these days to be able to do their job. The folks at Kasada (https://www.kasada.io) have talked over the years at a high level of some of the approaches they've taken, there should be a few conference presentations on YouTube. They don't get into the finer detail though as I assume there's a large amount of secret sauce about what they do too.

I'm not sure what they do for the non-JS use case. They sit in the request path like a CDN though so maybe they just return an error or deliberately slow response times?