Case Study: TheFork eliminates scraping and blocks account takeovers with DataDome

TheFork (TripAdvisor) blocks scraping on its applications

TheFork, a TripAdvisor company and Europe’s leading online restaurant booking platform (more than 60,000 restaurants and 21 million visits per month), faced persistent scraper bots stealing high-value content and repeated account takeover attempts that generated unpredictable traffic peaks, inflated hosting costs, and required manual IP blocking. To protect its applications and preserve resources for real users, TheFork engaged DataDome for automated bot protection.

DataDome was quickly deployed and configured by TheFork’s engineering team using DataDome’s AI-driven detection, Custom Rules and partner whitelisting, with dashboard access for tech partners and analytics. As a result, DataDome has eliminated scraping, blocks account takeover attempts in real time, removed unexpected bandwidth peaks, and left TheFork’s infrastructure 100% available for legitimate traffic.

TheFork

Damien Gilloz

Linux and DevOps System Engineer