A user reports that Tencent Cloud infrastructure is being used to run headless browsers like Playwright to scrape websites, bypassing standard bot protection measures.

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        "excerpt": "Block these ASNs in cloudfare AS13220 → Tencent (China) AS132203 → Tencent Net AP (CN, QQ/WeChat infra)",
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        "excerpt": "That does not work. The range might contain valid requests. Also, they are rotating and mostly not reusing single addresses.\n\n When you inspect your logs , then you will see that they got query param encoding wrong and in the browser you will notice that they have funky browser settings (display size square) and only use a small range of browser agents. You might want to find a set of combinations",
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        "excerpt": "I am having the same exact issue with no luck yet on solving it..",
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        "excerpt": "The honest answer is you probably need AI analyzing your logs and looking for patterns and setting rules and working with cloudflare together with you.",
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        "excerpt": "Since I manage challenge all traffic outside of the USA, a lot of these scrapers are now using hacked USA residential (hacked cameras for example) with ISPs like Verizon, Comcast, T-mobile, AT&T to scrape my sites. I had Claude Code analyze the tells (frozen browser strings, not using cookies, etc) and block them that way with adjusting the rules. When they adjust, I adjust again.",
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  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"tencent.com","limit":20}'