New techniques to detect Chrome headless: antoinevastel.github.io/bot%20detectio
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nice post but they seem to be trivial. couldn't you just spoof some of the variables and functions on the headless driver script? inject some js code into the driver?
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Thanks. Since fingerprints are collected on client side of course you can spoof/forge the different attributes. However, it enables to detect browsers that just change their UA.
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While I agree with you, the goal of my article is simply to detect naive implementations of Chrome headless crawlers. BTW nice blog ;)
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to clarify, i didn't write that post. but I did want to share it as it was posted today!