Case Study: LV digital achieves 100% uptime and new revenue from data with DataDome

LV Digital Protects Its Classified Ads & Generates New Revenue With DataDome

LV digital GmbH, which runs classified marketplaces like Traktorpool and Baupool, was losing listings and experiencing frequent downtime because aggressive scraper bots and form spam were overwhelming its on-premise infrastructure. To protect its public listings and reduce server load, LV digital selected DataDome’s bot protection (installing the DataDome module for Varnish) to stop unauthorized scraping and spam at the edge.

DataDome quickly proved effective: the dashboard showed scrapers had been consuming about 25% of infrastructure resources, and after a short trial and rapid onboarding LV digital moved to production and has enjoyed 100% uptime since deployment. DataDome not only delivered a positive ROI and potential future hosting cost savings, it also freed at least 50% of one engineer’s time and enabled a new revenue stream—selling proprietary data to market‑intelligence buyers—so the DataDome protection essentially paid for itself.

LV digital

Michael Romer

Head of Product and IT