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Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by namuorg »

pavelfeldman wrote: post #119

I mean no disrespect, but this looks like an outdated clone of https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/blob/main/src/to... https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/main/src/tools/tool.t...

Hey Pavel, this is Namu, the creator of Browser MCP.

You’re right, this is an adaptation of Playwright MCP to automate the user’s local browser as mentioned in the GitHub README and here:

- https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/3e6824de6f36eba7d2d3b...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613905

Thanks for all your work to Playwright and Playwright MCP. I’m a big fan!

(For those not familiar, Pavel is the largest contributor to both Playwright and Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/graphs/contributors, https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/graphs/contribut...)

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by clown_strike »

omgwtfbyobbq wrote: post #75
SSLy wrote: post #68

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it does, CF bans my own honest to God clicks if I do them too fast.

About five years ago, maybe more, Google started sending me captchas if I ran too many repetitive searches. I could be wrong, but it feel like most large platforms have fairly sophisticated anti-bot/scraping stuff in place.

Yandex does the same.

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by hliyan »

Ideally, shouldn't this be the native experience of most "sites" on the internet? We've built an entire user experience around serving users rich, two dimensional visual content that is not machine-readable and are now building a natural language command line layer on top of it. Why not get rid of the middleware and present users a direct natural language interface to the application layer?

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by pavelfeldman »

namuorg wrote: post #131
pavelfeldman wrote: post #119

I mean no disrespect, but this looks like an outdated clone of https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/blob/main/src/to... https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/main/src/tools/tool.t...

Hey Pavel, this is Namu, the creator of Browser MCP. You’re right, this is an adaptation of Playwright MCP to automate the user’s local browser as mentioned in the GitHub README and here: - https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/3e6824de6f36eba7d2d3b... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613905 Thanks for all your work to Playwright and Playwright MCP. I’m a big fan! (For those not familiar, Pavel is the larges…

Hi Namu, all good! Feel free to send us the patches and work upstream, would be happy to see you on board!

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by verve_rat »

sitkack wrote: post #117
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #88

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I use Vimium (Chrome extension for using keyboard control of the browser) and this happens to me as well since the behavior looks "unnatural".

Must suck for people with assistive software. I get blocked on CF for now damn reason.

Yeah, I do wonder if there are any ADA implications with that?

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by orbital-decay »

StevenNunez wrote: post #94

I feel like I slept for a day and now MCPs are everywhere... I don't know what MCPs are and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

MCP is a standard to plug useful tools into AI models so they can use them. The concept looks confusingly reversed and non-obvious to a normal person, although devs don't see this because it looks like their tooling.

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by Quarrel »

dalemhurley wrote: post #99
tempoponet wrote: post #84

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Modern captchas use a number of tools including many of the approaches you mentioned. This why you might sometimes see a CloudFlare "I am not a robot" checkbox that checks itself and moves along before you have much time to even react. It's looking at a number of signals to determine that you're probably human before you've even checked the box.

When I am using keyboard navigation, shortcuts and autofills, I seem to get mistaken for a bot a lot. These Captchas are really bad at detecting bots and really good at falsely labelling humans as bots.

With AI feeding / scraping traffic to sites growing ridiculously fast, I think captchas & their equivalent are only going to be on the rise, and given the rise in so many people selling residential proxies I see, I don't doubt that measures and counter-measures on both sides are getting more and more sophisticated.

> These Captchas are really bad at detecting bots and really good at falsely labelling humans as bots.

As a human it feels that way to you. I suspect their false-positive rate is very low.

Of course, you may well be right that you get pinged more because of your style of browsing, which sux.

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