New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

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  • Not a browser but Arkenfox[1] hardens standard firefox. But it's not for everyone and using something this specific can be a problem in itself.

    [1]: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

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  • There are even Puppeteer plugins that will do it for you. [^1]

    The best detection I've come across so far (i.e. before this release) has just required I run headless Chrome in headed mode. Granted, I don't do a ton of scraping -- mostly just pulling data out of websites so that I can play with it in aggregate using more civilized tools.

    [1]: https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/pack...

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