| There's a huge amount of aggro pissy shitthrowing that Chrome is facilitating automation in these threads. Bollocks. You know what? The Internet Is For End Users [1]. If we're going to cite an RFC, it should be RFC 8890. Not having a better headless Chrome would be a violation of the most basic principles of the internet. There are some cases where automation can get out of hand, but blocking these efforts should not come at user expense. So says the RFC8890, and a general collective belief/hum-in-the-room. The availability of a good browser like Chrome helping should not be an issue, given how many other ways bad players have to go too far & cause harm to sites. The people who have to deal with this are not the priority & this doesn't radically change their troubles; this radically helps end users wishing to exercise agency though. In most cases being able to script & automate a site is a completely primitive user-agency, of no special regard. Headless Chrome being a somewhat tolerable way of doing that scripting is 100% morale, correct. It greatly assists us in fulfilling a primary & clear overarching purpose of the internet: to be for end users. I wish I could say I cannot believe the complaining & whinining & snivelling, the pretentious-nonsense/acting-offended that Chrome would dare help make good automation. I wish I could say I don't think this crowd recognizes nor comprehends the basic purpose of the internet, but again, I think I know better; I suspect they do but their protests are disingenous, that they have allied their hearts with darker forces, against the user. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890 |