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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by fny on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:55PM (#16182395)
Give it time my friend: they don't need to detect headless browsers, they just need to restrict your DOM-given freedom altogether.

Some prick is bound to make some fancy non-DOM web framework using web assembly and turn the internet into a DRM-ridden mess.

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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by chopin on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:34AM (#16185077)
Is there something like a non-DOM UI framework? Either you paint your pixels yourself or you have something equivalent to a DOM.

Even without fancy HTML5 stuff anybody could have sent a prerendered image.

I remember web-sites which exclusively rendered in Flash. I avoided them like a plague.

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Re:It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless by fny on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:13AM (#16187272)
A while ago Flipboard released a canvas based UI. https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

Most companies do use some flash nonsense, but given the state of that, I'm sure they'll find some new insanity to foist on us.

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