Case Study: Le Parisien (French daily newspaper) stops content‑scraping bots and cuts server load with DataDome

Le Parisien regulates its bot traffic with DataDome

Le Parisien, a leading French daily with about 17 million monthly unique visitors, was seeing scraper bots steal editorial content and parasitize its syndication business, driving up hosting costs and creating unfair competition for legitimate partners. To tackle this, Le Parisien deployed DataDome’s bot-detection and blocking solution to identify and stop unauthorized crawlers.

DataDome was installed quickly and provided a real-time dashboard to identify offenders, block unwanted bots by default, and whitelist legitimate partners with a single click. The protection reduced unwanted load by more than 10%, improved application stability, restored fair competition among syndication partners, and triggered commercial negotiations with previously non-licensed content resellers.

Le Parisien

Caroline de La Vèze

Head of Content Syndication