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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by chriswarbo on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:50PM (#16181838)
The first thing I do when hitting a YouTube URL is stop the video. Then I'll either run youtube-dl on the URL, or just paste it straight into a proper video player (VLC).
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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by bpicolo on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:22PM (#16182573)
Pretty confident you're in the extreme minority on that one
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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by txsh on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:26PM (#16184147)
There are Chrome extensions that automatically pause the video.
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