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by robertlagrant 541 days ago
How can Google make that happen? Playwright's made by Microsoft. It can use Firefox as a browser as well as Chrome.
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well I said when using Chrome, how would they make it happen?

well it's not like it's using AutoHotkey to automate things, it must be using underlying browser apis to move to move the mouse to mouseover something etc. as opposed to actually using the mouse, as an example

naive workflow -

I would think the browser sends message to google that instance (unique id) is being automated, recaptcha is detected by chrome on page, chrome calls hidden recaptcha method .setUniqueId(uniqueID) uniqueID is sent back to Google response tells it this is actually an automated browser that is being used as opposed to recaptcha, recaptcha gives 90% chance browser is automated to site, site stops browser access.

Site happy it uses recaptcha because they stopped automation.

Sure, Playwright can use FF, but most often people just use Chrome.