>How can you protect your sites from these bots?
JA4 fingerprinting works decently for the residential proxies.
JA4 fingerprinting works decently for the residential proxies.
However residential proxies do have a weakness, since they need to maintain 2 separate TCP conenctions you can exploit RTT differences between layers 3 and 7 to detect if the connection to your server is being terminated somewhere along the path. Solutions exist that can reliably detect and block residential proxies, for example: https://layer3intel.com/tripwire