Case Study: Libération achieves instant protection against AI scrapers with DataDome

Les Echos blocks 113 million malicious requests per month with DataDome

Les Echos, a French newspaper with over one million daily readers, faced a significant challenge with AI-powered crawlers and scrapers stealing their content. This unauthorized automated traffic consumed bandwidth and bypassed ads, threatening their resources. They lacked visibility into this non-human traffic and needed a solution to protect their content quickly. They turned to DataDome for its bot protection capabilities.

By implementing DataDome's solution through a native integration with their Arc XP platform, Les Echos deployed protection in under five minutes. DataDome provided immediate observability and began blocking malicious traffic in less than two milliseconds. The results were substantial, with DataDome blocking an average of 113 million malicious requests per month, securing their content and providing the team with peace of mind.

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