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"One web scraper was doing anything he could to get airfares, and despite our initial attempts with many other solutions to stop him, he could still get back into the site within 24 hours. But when we implemented Distil, he simply gave up."
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"We deal with market research data samples, typically through email-based interviews. Data integrity is critical."
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"If someone comes in and steals our data through scraping, we don’t know exactly what they do with the data. They would probably resell it to their own customers, so they would make a profit on our data—and they don’t pay a cent to us to do that. Of course, …
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"We tried several homegrown and third-party tools to eliminate bots, but they kept getting through. With Distil Networks, we’re able to proactively stop bots from hitting our site, and its granular controls let us tune our protection settings for our most important pages."
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"We wanted something that would run unattended and automatically stop the bots. We were astounded by the amount bad bots that are available o the Internet and try to access our datas. Distil just works."
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"With Distil, we increased our uptime from 99.6 to 99.9%, reduced infrastructure costs and eliminated costly bot-driven API calls. Bots be gone!"
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"After spending more than a year cultivating our own in-house scraping prevention solution we realized there were well funded scrapers who could adapt faster than we could stop them. The Distil Networks team continually works to ensure that as scrapers change they’re right there changing with them."
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"This project has been a great success for us. It provides us with a highly effective, speedy, 24 hour automated system for detecting and giving us the information needed to act upon or even block scraping activity if we wish to."
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"Some bot operators interject scripts into their code to mimic human behavior. Others will circumvent the web product page and go directly to the API behind it. Before Distil, bot blocking was eating up 20% of team resources, only 30% effective, and impacting the team’s quality of life. Distil lets …
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"In the last five months, we’ve hit our look-to-book targets and have not had to worry about the possibility of overage charges. That’s the first time in three years we’ve been able to make our look-to-book ratio."
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"Sophisticated bots are constantly attacking companies like ours. The Distil Analyst Managed Services team has spent days counteracting particular bots --- which is much better than us having to do that on our own."
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"Distil revealed that roughly 30% of our traffic was comprised of bad bots. We’re now blocking over 80% of that, and may decide to get more aggressive with our settings. Distil’s hands-off, proactive approach saves our company two to three man-days per month and is much more effective than the …
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"Across all of our 20+ newspaper sites, Distil Networks keeps our content and data safe and improves our content delivery."
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"We have steadily been blocking more bad actors and the spam they post. This is exactly what we were hoping we were going to get out of implementing Distil Networks' filtering solution."
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"The volunteers don't pull any punches when they are dissatisfied with the kind of spam they have to deal with. They want to spend their time helping people with Drupal technical questions, and instead they're deleting spam. Then they tell us we're doing a bad job in dealing with spam …