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It's bot week: At the beginning of the week, Microsoft announced Playwright, a cross-browser instrumentation framework for Chrome, Firefox and Webkit. Now it's the turn of Puppeteer to announce full support for Firefox in addition to Chrome (github.com/puppeteer/pupp )

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It depends on what you mean by "easy". These bots tend to look more and more like real browsers. For example, Playwright with Firefox/webkit have navigator.webdriver = false by default.

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It means that with the standard configuration you have less chances to be detected compare to a default Headless Chrome that has an identifiable UA + webdriver = true.

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However, once you start digging (what I do the whole day), you start to see a lot of subtle differences that can be used to detect bots based on these frameworks.

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