I'm in a business tangential to the one the author is in and I've mostly encountered annoyances automating websites which perform browser fingerprinting including TLS fingerprinting, but outright blocks not really, not unless you also block real users like cloudflare and datadome frequently do (in their cases, automations have a marginally lower bypass rate than real users do).
In my experience, the level of sophistication to automate bypassing WAFs which do fingerprinting is much too high for those skills to be used to click ads. Seriously, it's not just about the compute cost of running real browsers and residential proxies, it's also the dev time invested, nobody clicks google ads when they can do much, much more with that knowledge.
In my experience, the level of sophistication to automate bypassing WAFs which do fingerprinting is much too high for those skills to be used to click ads. Seriously, it's not just about the compute cost of running real browsers and residential proxies, it's also the dev time invested, nobody clicks google ads when they can do much, much more with that knowledge.