Whitepages Protects Online Data and Blocks Form Spam Using Distil
Whitepages Protects Online Data and Blocks Form Spam Using Distil
6 PagesWhitepages Whitepages Protects Online Data and Blocks Form Spam Using Distil www.distilnetworks.com sales@distilnetworks.com 1.866.423.0606 2 BOT BUSTER Michael Bradshaw IT Operations Manager COMPANY Whitepages INDUSTRY Directory and Identity Verification Services CHALLENGES • Data scrapers were stealing directory data and premium content • Whitepages’ homegrown bot prevention solution was time- consuming and error-prone, resulting in many false positives • Customer service was receiving daily complaints about blocked pages • Bots were executing costly third party API calls • Infrastructure costs were out of control due to increased query load from bots DEPLOYMENT Distil Appliance RESULTS • Stopped comment spam and prevented scrapers from stealing data • Reduced time spent de
