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I don't understand this excuse - If you have tracking protection, you will look like a bot. Are the bot makers that dumb? Don't they set user agent to Chrome,
by ffpip 6y ago
I don't understand this excuse - If you have tracking protection, you will look like a bot.
Are the bot makers that dumb? Don't they set user agent to Chrome, disable all forms of protection and stuff?
- londons_explore 6y agoIt's actually really hard to look exactly like Chrome... Did your bot-browser return exactly the same error message as Chrome does when compiling corrupted webassembly? Detected!
- thekyle 6y agoPresumably they could just use real Chrome and control it with Selenium.
- tester34 6y agoAin't that significantly slower?
- londons_explore 6y agoYes, but considering a recaptcha only takes ~1 second of computation time, I wouldn't think it's cost prohibitive... Botters could just spin up more workers.
- londons_explore 6y agoReal chrome has telltale signs when selenium is connected. For example, garbage collections happen more frequently when requestAninationFrame is called. There is also an extra startup delay for service processes while selenium is given an opportunity to connect (service workers). Built in extensions (like Google Cast) also behave differently.