Category
25% of the 36 Social mediasites 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 500px.com | Open | — |
| badoo.com | Open | — |
| behance.net | Open | — |
| bsky.app | Open |
| bumble.com | Open | — |
| deviantart.com | Open | — |
| discord.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| douyin.com | Protected | Citrix NetScaler |
| dribbble.com | Open | — |
| facebook.com | Open | — |
| flickr.com | Open | — |
| grindr.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| instagram.com | Open | — |
| line.me | Open | — |
| linkedin.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| mastodon.social | Open | — |
| match.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| meetup.com | Open | — |
| myspace.com | Open | — |
| nextdoor.com | Open | — |
| ok.ru | Open | — |
| pinterest.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| qq.com | Open | — |
| snapchat.com | Open | — |
| telegram.org | Open | — |
| threads.net | Open | — |
| tiktok.com | Protected | TikTok (proprietary VM) + 1 more |
| truthsocial.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| tumblr.com | Open | — |
| twitter.com | Open | — |
| vk.com | Open | — |
| wechat.com | Open | — |
| weibo.com | Open | — |
| whatsapp.com | Open | — |
| x.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| xiaohongshu.com | Open | — |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).