anti-bot
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Google quietly broke the search-scraping stack
Google Search now hides destination URLs behind google.com/goto redirects, forcing SERP scrapers to make a second request per result to resolve them.
Article
You depended on access you never owned.
Google Search now routes organic result links through google.com/goto, hiding destination URLs behind an undecodable blob to slow SERP scraping.
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tanh now fingerprints your OS
Since Chrome 148, Math.tanh returns different bits on Linux, macOS and Windows, giving anti-bot systems a per-OS fingerprint that is cheap to probe.