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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by paps on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:21PM (#15134020)
Where I work (https://phantombuster.com) we use them for scraping the web.

They're a hassle-free way of getting the data. No need to worry about CORS, sessions, cookies, CSRF and other modern web stuff. Just simulate a human and you’re in.

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Re:Headless mode in Firefox by AndyNemmity on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:51AM (#15147052)
Yeah, I used to work for a company doing similar things. Was more expensive that way, but there were tons of sites you could only get the data being in a proper browser.
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