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Yes, it will do nothing against sophisticated botters.

It has been a standard tactic to run browsers in purpose built VMs. The last bastion were smarter, more disruptive captchas and rendering performance profiling, but even that got grinded by now.

The situation is even more grave with mobile ads as you have zero opportunity to shove captchas, or rely on single unique per-system ID or cookie that was vetted outside of embedded webkit environment.



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