6. Lazy Bot Developer Vectors (V13.0)
History Evasion
Detection approach
Clean browser history detected: referrer is empty, history.length is 1, and the landing page was reached via paid traffic. Fresh automation sessions start with history.length === 1 because they initialize in fresh, clean contexts, whereas real human users almost always arrive via navigation history.
How this helps detect bots
This signal is assessed with other independent session, browser, and network evidence. A single anomaly is a lead, not a verdict; corroborating anomalies make automated traffic more likely.
Legitimate traffic to consider
Users opening paid links in completely clean, newly opened incognito tabs.