Case Study: Ooreka.fr achieves uninterrupted site availability and content protection with DataDome

Ooreka puts an end to DoS attacks with DataDome

Ooreka.fr, a major French advice site with about 10 million monthly unique visitors and 50,000 articles, was routinely targeted by harmful bots that scraped content and triggered DoS attacks—sometimes taking the site down for two to three hours and even hitting its APIs and forms. CTO Paul Marcombes and his team needed a way to stop automated abuse without disrupting legitimate users, and they turned to DataDome for bot protection.

DataDome’s bot-detection and blocking solution was implemented, providing real-time dashboards, low‑false‑positive CAPTCHAs, shared threat intelligence and flexible rule controls (including whitelisting). As a result, Ooreka reports no more DoS outages, continuous site availability, protected content, minimal CAPTCHA friction, and faster operational management thanks to DataDome’s automated updates and real-time rule changes.

Ooreka

Paul Marcombes

Chief Technology Officer