--- description: Find out why Arkose Bot Manager is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: Arkose Bot Manager: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf0d293a0fdab5a0/698a41789d83e86167b97ced/best-inventions-2023-arkose-bot-manager.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Blocking Bots Arkose Bot Manager by Pranav Dixit  The internet is crawling with bots, some good, some malicious. Bad bots can be used to launch mass-scale attacks on online businesses to steal usernames and passwords, take over accounts, and illegally scrape data to sell to unauthorized third parties. Arkose Bot Manager detects malicious bots using network information, IP addresses, and more, then stops them in their tracks using proprietary CAPTCHAs that are more sophisticated and gamelike (“Use the arrow to rotate the animal to face in the direction of the hand”) than usual. “This precise response strategy ensures genuine users proceed without interruption,” says Ashish Jain, chief product officer at Arkose Labs. Arkose Bot Manager: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326339/arkose-bot-manager/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326339/arkose-bot-manager/"},"headline":"Blocking Bots","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:23:15.837Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326339/arkose-bot-manager/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf0d293a0fdab5a0/698a41789d83e86167b97ced/best-inventions-2023-arkose-bot-manager.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf0d293a0fdab5a0/698a41789d83e86167b97ced/best-inventions-2023-arkose-bot-manager.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326339/arkose-bot-manager/","name":"Blocking Bots"}}]}] ```