A few days ago, I noticed that
ApkTrack (an Android app I maintain) could no longer query one of the websites it usually obtains data from.
The app works mostly through
web scraping and once in a while, the target websites set up new countermeasures to prevent bots from accessing their contents (even innocuous bots such as this app). In this post, we'll see how the protection I encountered this week-end was bypassed.
