A strategic approach is needed to address scraping risks and safeguard intellectual capital from automated data harvesting.

Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.