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38.9% of the 36 Video & streamingsites 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bilibili.com | Open | — |
| bitchute.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| crunchyroll.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| dailymotion.com |
| Open |
| — |
| discoveryplus.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| disneyplus.com | Open | — |
| fubo.tv | Open | — |
| hbomax.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| hotstar.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| hulu.com | Open | — |
| iqiyi.com | Open | — |
| max.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| metacafe.com | Open | — |
| mubi.com | Open | — |
| mxplayer.in | Open | — |
| ndtv.com | Protected | Akamai Bot Manager |
| netflix.com | Open | — |
| odysee.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| paramountplus.com | Open | — |
| peacocktv.com | Open | — |
| philo.com | Open | — |
| plex.tv | Protected | Cloudflare |
| pluto.tv | Open | — |
| primevideo.com | Open | — |
| roku.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| rumble.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| sling.com | Open | — |
| sonyliv.com | Open | — |
| tubitv.com | Open | — |
| twitch.tv | Open | — |
| viki.com | Open | — |
| vimeo.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| vudu.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| youku.com | Open | — |
| youtube.com | Open | — |
| zee5.com | Protected | Akamai Bot Manager |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).