A new scraper hit nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqvrze8s3kpsnge6znzfqsffxuzlj5sy2mnn2xgcxdtchv8re6srlsevqtd4 (nprofile…qtd4) this week:
- 64M requests and 2.2 TB in 31 hours, from 2.6M residential IPs in 229 countries.
- Headless Chrome, solved Anubis, re-downloaded every JS bundle on every page, never more than ~4k requests per IP.
- It gave itself away by reporting a full Chrome build number (156.0.8078.47) when real Chrome only sends 156.0.0.0.
🔨
Andrew Nesbitt
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2026-10-24 11:19:03 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1fautsc5m6awyj0rpz385d6e828dtfc2zfualqxzvnmrrddus688qv3dn4kSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-10-24 11:19:03 UTCEvent JSON
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