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Based on the current state of affairs [1] you may get more structure around tasks in the app (or django packages running tasks) which is probably a nice thing. Other than that you …

Seems like... not really. > Django’s new Tasks framework makes it easy to define and enqueue such work. It does not provide a worker mechanism to run Tasks. The actual execution mu…

"Was this helpful?" > "No" > "Why can't this bullshit can't be disabled globally?" > "Submit"

Imperva with it's core product around blocking bots publishing statistics on how crowded platforms are with bots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In Chrome/Chromium there is a WebRTC Network Limiter [1] extension that let you set "Use only my default public IP address" policy and render the method I presented ineffective. [1…

It's both security and privacy issue. Whonix wiki explains the latter in more detail https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Data_Collection_Techniques#:~:te...

Sure, it can be! Also, as some people have already pointed out, this is often a gray area where people go beyond violating ToS. Some good examples are privacy violations (scraping …

- Trust Token API to verify whether you are a bot or not - Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.google/products/ads-commer... As well as there is …

Anything based on Chromium is vulnerable to all specialised fingerprinting techniques such as this one https://niespodd.github.io/persistent-tracking-shader-cache/ and many others …

A remote cloud-based secure phone that doesn't leak your private data because it's not running in your phone. Hi everyone! As a side project I have created something that I would l…

I thought about it too but when you consider cost of running headless Puppeteer (lets say on AWS) and the cost of a good proxy that is charged per GB its often as expensive (if not…

That's true when it's a one-time job: pull the data and disappear. I also see how this is the case for most freelancers on Fiverr or Freelancer. This is the tool they know, so they…

Hi HN As in the title, I am wondering what are the reasons anyone would use Puppeteer/Selenium/other-browser-emu for web scraping if there are already tens if not hundreds of SaaS …

Agreed. I have changed the text, so that it is less confusing. Thank you for pointing this out!

@jjgreen I am genuinely interested what are the existing solutions and how people deal with the problem. This is why it's "Ask HN". If there is none and someone would be interested…

There is a growing number of companies offering anti-bot protection SaaS to protect websites from scraping by automated bots based on Puppeteer/Selenium. Most of them rely on brows…

@qiyuxuan96 Hi there. I am developing a cross-browser extension development/deployment SaaS. Would you be interested in hearing more? We make life easier with things like: - versio…

Hi, I'm building a web extension for social media automation and I try to find tools/platforms to get my product quicker to marketplaces like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE extension …

Is there a good short answer for why uBlock is using constructs like this: if ( self.browser instanceof Object ) { self.chrome = self.browser; } else { self.browser = self.chrome; …