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Careful, if you are to get something real-life-working on the major javascript-walled sites out there, Big Tech will try to make your life hell (and that includes shadow-paying hackers to destroy your software).


In such extreme cases a possible solution is to use this approach: https://www.fixbrowser.org/faq#gatekeepers


Any examples of this happening? If so, id really like to read about it


Since, in the end, the benefit of the crime is all for those Big Tech Web engines, the requirement of the proof is inverted (or those hackers are beyond stu..., unlikely). And Big Tech is proven guilty of anti-competitive practices all the time, they are recurring offenders (unless you have been living in a cave for decades).

Basically, untill proven otherwise the recurring offenders which are the sole benefit of this crime are guilty.




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