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		Tsarp 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser Dont you need to navigator.webdriver === true for CDP to drive automation? Maybe I need to update my understanding on this. THis is usually a dead giveaway

yencabulator 3 months ago [–]

I see mentions that (unpatched) webdriver is easy to detect but detecting CDP only works by heuristics on timing etc.

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