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by adamfisk 80 days ago
Author here, but one piece I didn't dive into is CEF vs CDP. Things like Browserbase use Chrome Devtools Protocol, which is useful for manipulating the browser for some use cases, but it's also detectable in a variety of ways. Wick Pro uses Chrome Embedded Framework with tie-ins at the C++ layer. So it is actual Chrome, not a detectable protocol manipulating Chrome. Some details at https://getwick.dev/blog/cef-vs-cdp, but I'm curious if other folks have experience in this area or thoughts in general.

Wick is also local-first. So it's designed for local agents crawling successfully vs larger scale crawls simply because we haven't built out the infra.