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Tsarp on June 24, 2025 | 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 on June 24, 2025 [–]

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

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