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75% of the 36 Forums & communitysites we tested run a managed anti-bot or WAF. That is a homepage-level reading — the listing, search, and account pages people actually scrape are usually more protected.
Vendors in this category
| Site | Protected | Anti-bot / WAF |
|---|---|---|
| 4chan.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| 9gag.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| babypips.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| blackhatworld.com | Protected |
| Cloudflare |
| bogleheads.org | Protected | Cloudflare + 1 more |
| city-data.com | Open | — |
| cruisecritic.com | Protected | DataDome |
| dcard.tw | Protected | Cloudflare |
| digg.com | Open | — |
| disqus.com | Open | — |
| fark.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| flyertalk.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| gamefaqs.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| hive.blog | Protected | Cloudflare |
| imgur.com | Open | — |
| metafilter.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| mix.com | Open | — |
| mumsnet.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| nairaland.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| neogaf.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| phpbb.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| pikabu.ru | Protected | DDoS-Guard |
| ptt.cc | Open | — |
| quora.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| reddit.com | Protected | Unidentified WAF / bot protection |
| resetera.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| somethingawful.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| steemit.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| tapatalk.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| thestudentroom.co.uk | Protected | Cloudflare |
| vbulletin.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| wallstreetoasis.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| warriorforum.com | Open | — |
| whirlpool.net.au | Protected | Cloudflare |
| wykop.pl | Open | — |
| xda-developers.com | Open | — |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).