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Detect and crash Chromium bots

by Antoine Vastel blog.castle.io published 2025-05-07

Disclaimer: If you're here for the holy grail of bot detection, this may not be it, unless your UX strategy involves surprise popups and your marketing strategy involves blocking Google crawlers. We recently stumbled across a bug on the Chromium bug tracker where a short JavaScript snippet can crash

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