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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by solyin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:50PM (#50459987)
> Claude code with the Claude in chrome plugin

Chrome has this architectural problem where the webpage can see what extensions you have installed. United could just refuse to run if you have that installed.

Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by bijowo1676 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:55PM (#50460047)
claude can control broser without any plugin/extension using remote debugging port instead
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by hsuduebc2 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:58PM (#50460098)
Or just skill for computer use which just clicks on the screen.
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by disiplus on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:06PM (#50460225)
chrome exposes when it does this to the website. thats why if you want to scrape websites making it hard you use a forked firefox made for that.

id dont scrape for profit but for hobby projects. and some of websites them are annoying.

Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by jacquesm on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:45PM (#50461351)
It is you that is annoying.
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by kube-system on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:41AM (#50464188)
You can detect any debugger attached to any browser running V8 with:

    let cdp = false;
    const orig = Error.prepareStackTrace;
    Error.prepareStackTrace = function () {
      cdp = true;
      return orig;
    };
    console.log(new Error(''));
    // cdp === true  → a debugger/automation client has the Runtime domain enabled
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by jen20 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:17PM (#50463021)
That sounds a lot like United might lose a lot of their most valuable customers.