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New comment by erekp in "Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet"

erekp — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:35:36 +0000

same. good luck finding us out there - we can replicate all the patterns you point out there. been in this industry for 10 years now :)

New comment by erekp in "Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations"

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:39:25 +0000

Yeah, our solution is a self-hosted one. You control everything. Send us a message, sounds like we can help you build something!

New comment by erekp in "Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations"

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:31:12 +0000

I don't see why such animosity. Many legit companies (which is the only type of enterprise we deal with) have legit automation use-cases and require solutions to do that against walled gardens and information gatekeepers. We believe whatever a human can do with a computer, in public sites, should be automatable with a machine. There's no difference. A browser like that does not DDOs anyone.

New comment by erekp in "Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations"

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:23:39 +0000

Thanks! Glad we're helping

New comment by erekp in "Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations"

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:19:58 +0000

You can probably implement that using our self-hosted solution. You'll have full access to the browser and can save sessions.

New comment by erekp in "Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations"

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:13:58 +0000

We're looking to deal with companies that have serious automation and scraping challenges. There are other solutions out there that are less robust and more transparent on how they bypass protections. We chose to keep ours tight to protect our clients and provide the best enterprise support we can.

Metal – stealth browser for enterprise automations

erekp — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:06:52 +0000

Hi HN!

Today we're launching Metal, a self-hosted stealth browser built for enterprise automation. We have many years of experience bypassing anti-bot protections and CAPTCHAs, and we've seen the same problems solved repeatedly with hacky solutions that don't stand the test of time.

We built Metal to address the most common challenges companies face when automating browsers or performing web scraping at scale.

Our custom browser comes with everything included—handling anti-bots, CAPTCHAs, and common deployment methods—and is entirely self-hosted, allowing companies to scale as needed without worrying about complicated usage-based pricing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039798

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New comment by erekp in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

erekp — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:34:51 +0000

sounds good. As you can probably imagine, I also come from a lot of experience in the space :) But fair enough, everyone has their own opinion on what is more or less painful to implement and maintain and the associated pros and cons. We're tailored to very specific use cases that require scale and speed, so the route we took makes the most sense. I can't obviously share details of our implementation as it'd expose our evasions. And this is the exact problem of open source alternatives like camoufox and the now defunct puppeteer-stealth.

New comment by erekp in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

erekp — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:53:51 +0000

we fix leaks and bugs of automation frameworks, so we don't have that problem. The approach of using the user's browser, like yours, is that you will burn the user's fingerprint depending on scale.

New comment by erekp in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

erekp — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:06:56 +0000

We have a similar solution at metalsecurity.io :) handling large-scale automation for enterprise use cases, bypassing antibots

New comment by erekp in "Show HN: Scrape Creators – Real time Social media scraping APIs for devs"

erekp — Sat, 10 May 2025 08:12:21 +0000

Do people still need social media APIs? My experience is most of the use cases require accounts and login

New comment by erekp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

erekp — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:47:11 +0000

how do you exactly fallback to common crawl? isn't the cost to even hold and query common crawl insane?

New comment by erekp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

erekp — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:39:22 +0000

with your account? you never get blocked? that's impressive