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Headed chrome adds a huge amount of overhead, and can also be fingerprinted more easily. This is a lot more declarative and makes it easier to run an abuse farm
by parker_mountain 4y ago
Headed chrome adds a huge amount of overhead, and can also be fingerprinted more easily. This is a lot more declarative and makes it easier to run an abuse farm. Although, per my other comment, I don't see Headless as a tool that will particularly move the needle on abuse cases.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoIsn'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.
- runlevel1 4y agoThere 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/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/pack...