Avneh Bhatia
Making machines learn. Applied math major currently developing the next generation of bot detection models at cside.
Articles by Avneh Bhatia
Headless Browser Detection: Signals, Methods, and What Works in 2026
Headless browsers power most bot attacks in 2026. Which signals catch them, why simple checks fail against stealth tooling, and what holds.
How to bypass Reddit bot detection (and where behavioral defense still holds)
We built human_nav, an RL tool that moves like a hand to stress-test behavioral bot detection. Learned motion beats geometry, not a moving detector.
Catching Playwright and browserless bots by how the cursor moves
Real catch rates on Playwright-driven mouse movement and browserless.io's humanlike API, caught on desktop from cursor motion alone.
Catching bots by the way they move: behavioral cursor detection
How cside's cursor_v2 model scores mouse movement to catch the stealth bots that already beat fingerprint and IP checks.
Catching bots that don't want to be caught: inside a two-stage neural detection stack
How a two-stage neural stack catches stealth browsers, proxied scrapers, and LLM agents that pass every fingerprint check, and where it hits a wall.