Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotIDMon Jun 30 2025authored by veritasPreamble I’m conflicted every time I write one of these posts. On one hand, anti-bots are important. They help stop credential stuffing attacks1, block denial-of-service attempts, and keep bad faith scrapers from inflating hosting costs2 (especially in the era of AI). If you’re running a business on the internet these days, it’s hard to survive without some kind of bot protection in place. On the other hand, I kind of hate them....