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It seems like it is effective.

We were getting a lot of automated requests, and right when we put the waterwall on our page, it did a good job of picking out those users and not impacting others.

After a few days though, those users were able to start getting through again, but based on the timing between requests, it looks like they might have had to start operating the page manually.



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