I’ve been noticing the same thing too. I wonder if the state of the job market over the past couple of years has anything to do with it. More people leaving and taking their knowledge with them, meaning issues are identified/fixed at a slower pace. I know I’ve seen it happen at the company I work at, but I wonder if big tech similar issues.
If I am correct in assuming the parent is talking about puppeteer, there is a plugin[1] that claims to evade most of the methods used to detect headless browsers. I have used it recently for just that purpose, and I can say that it worked wifh minimal setup and configuration for my usecase, but I guess depending on the detection mechanisms youre evading YMMV.
The creator of that plugin does mention it is very much a cat and mouse game, just like most of the “scraping industry”
I think the OP is talking about BitMex. I work at a crypto exchange and a large part of our team is dedicated to monitoring and reporting(through SARs and STRs) suspicious activity.
If anyone is interested, I wrote a python script to track where transactions from this address lead. It constructs a tree with this address being the base node, and addresses it has sent bitcoin to being the leaves.
It didn't really lead anywhere substantial, but it was interesting to see how many addresses got involved after the depth of the tree exceeded 4.
As another commenter pointed out, some of these addresses have obscene amounts of money going through them. Really makes you think about the scale of these tumblers. 1NDyJtNTjmwk5xPNhjgAMu4HDHigtobu1s is an example, with about $108,081,555,724 having gone through it, and a current balance of $51,644,803
