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Isn't headed chrome usually fingerprinted by variables inserted by the chromedriver? You can rename these variables and be undetectable (you don't even have to recompile chromedriver, you can use a hex editor or a perl replacement).

At least I've never gotten detected.



There are even Puppeteer plugins that will do it for you. [^1]

The best detection I've come across so far (i.e. before this release) has just required I run headless Chrome in headed mode. Granted, I don't do a ton of scraping -- mostly just pulling data out of websites so that I can play with it in aggregate using more civilized tools.

[1]: https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/pack...




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