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Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by elbigbad on Sunday February 19, 2023 @10:24AM (#34858340)
PM working on Private Browsing mode here. Watching pornography is not the reason why the new Private Browsing mode was created. The goal is to provide an Private Mode than can be used for Christmas shopping. ;)

In all seriousness, despite intentions, and I do love headless mode for actual integration tests with Webdriver, it’s no exaggeration to say that it is likely the single greatest avenue for bots and spam enablement across the entire internet, and imo is probably net Bad.

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Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by dmix on Sunday February 19, 2023 @10:58AM (#34858649)
A necessary evil for supporting an open and programmable internet (IMO).
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Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by ufmace on Sunday February 19, 2023 @10:59AM (#34858654)
It seems more neutral to me. Yes there's a lot of spam and other types of malicious behavior, but I don't think it's good overall to try to eliminate web automation entirely to stop it.
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Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by zarzavat on Sunday February 19, 2023 @01:09PM (#34860159)
If it weren't for bots there would be no search engines, no internet archive, no WWW. Bots, and the tools for making them, are essential to the functioning of the web.
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