Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

There's a fork of this that has some great improvements over to the top of the original and it is also actively maintained: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl-impersonate

There's also Python bindings for the fork for anyone who uses Python: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi

I suppose it does make sense that a "make curl look like a browser" program would get sponsored by "bypass bot detection" services...

Easy. Just make a small fragment shader to produce a token in your client. No bot is going to waste GPU resources to compile your shader.

Can't they use a software renderer like swiftshader? You don't need to pass in an actual gpu through virtio or whatever.

Maybe you can call a WebGL extension that isn't supported. Or better yet have a couple of overdraws of quads. Their bot will handle it, but it will throttle their CPU like gangbusters.

Sounds like a PoW system with extra steps?

It's exactly a PoW system, but with fewer steps. Most bots can't run GPU workloads. Some do, and that's fine.

My hardware is not yours to galavant in, and your fitzing around in my digital home for your server's sake just lays bare you are being self-referentially inconsistent. You value the sanctity of your hardware, not mine.

You may not realize it, but you're sounding exactly like part of the problem here.