Bears, mice, and moles aren't enough: a better approach for preventing fraud

9 bobbiechen 3 6/9/2025, 8:37:27 PM stytch.com ↗

Comments (3)

arewethereyeta · 5h ago
Shameless plug but I have a client that got rid of almost 90% by blocking residential proxies or HTTP proxies in general using our service [1]. I tend to think people try some measures that are very hard to maintain going for behavioural data and other indicators where all fraud sits on this L1 being a proxy or a vpn.

[1] https://visitorqueey.com

bobbiechen · 8m ago
(Author of the post here)

Agreed - I'm pretty skeptical of invasive behavioral data like mouse movements. It feels like a popular meme from an earlier time, jiggle your mouse more before clicking the CAPTCHA checkbox, but in practice it's not a very high-value signal anymore (especially with the rise of mobile). TLS fingerprinting is a significantly more useful signal for us at Stytch.

conception · 2h ago
Typo in URL but queey would have been cute.