Akamai _abck: the cookie that rewrites itself on every response

<p>Akamai Bot Manager is the one anti-bot product where the cookie is the least interesting part of the story. Everyone fixates on <code>_abck</code>. What actually decides whether your next request passes is the sequence of updates <code>_abck</code> went through — and the headers that came back with it.</p> <p>This post is about three things that break Akamai automation in practice: treating <co

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