It depends on how their owners protect them. Switching IPs via proxies and changing user agents are well-known and relatively simple methods—essentially pretending to be different clients. However, nowadays, services like Cloudflare often render these techniques obsolete, forcing you to mimic human behavior instead. I don’t have expertise in that area.
Just finished writing a more fare benchmark a few days ago. It's utilizing all cores, have DB pools of the same capacity for all tested languages, uses asyncpg in the async Python version, etc.
The difference is Freelancy has native versions for OS X, Windows and Linux. Many people still prefer desktop apps to web services, because they give them the feeling ‘it's my own’ and works in any internet conditions, also it could be more convenient to work with a desktop app rather than with a tab in a browser.
No, it's not automatic. You just start a task, work on it and stop it when you're done. How an automatic solution that you use actually works? Does it track usage time for all apps?
Thanks, there is a button ‘+ Add’ and hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + N for adding new projects or clients. Also you can switch between sections (tracker, analytics, projects, etc) by hotkeys Cmd/Ctrl + 1/2/3/4.
JavaScript is all about lack of standard solutions. Take any aspect of the development and you will get a million of possible solutions, whether they are classes implementations, package managers or build tools.