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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to by anoncake on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:25AM (#19279588)
Does it? I don't think you can reliably identify whether something is visible if the other site, which controls the CSS, does not want you to. It's a classical arms race situation.
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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to by plausibilities on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:21PM (#19284356)
https://webdriver.io/docs/api/element/isDisplayed.html
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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to by anoncake on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:46PM (#19286414) 

    <span style="opacity: 0.001">Trap!</span>
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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to by thecatspaw on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:05AM (#19280158)
Selenium can reliably do that, as it is a proper webbrowser controlled through an API
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Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to by anoncake on Friday March 01, 2019 @08:30AM (#19280385)
Yes, but it is not a human eye and brain.
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