Selenium Detection and Anti-detect browsers

Magic Networks said:

Antidetect browsers use special libraries to avoid detection, such as undetected chromedriver, nodriver etc.
That's always a cat-mouse game, so you have to stay on the edge to be successfull.

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VisualA said:

Alright,

However, by that same logic...

Selenium-Stealth is a webdriver module for python which seems to address all these issues (without the need for an anti-detect browser). In addition to saving money, wouldn't something like this give us more control over what is being shown to the platforms that we are connecting to?

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Magic Networks said:

As I told you, this is always a cat-mouse game. Selenium-stealth is not enough these days to avoid detection.

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VisualA said:

So, I read this article. https://medium.com/@browserscan/browser-fingerprints-101-automation-detection-322ac81156ae

And it was pretty eye opening. As a newbie, I had no idea that Selenium would allow itself to be detected so easily. Do anti-detect browsers typically strip these objects before sending them or do we have to find our own workarounds?

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VisualA said:

So an anti-detect browser is a must? Because it is 'on the edge'?

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VisualA said:

So an anti-detect browser is a must? Because it is 'on the edge'?

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OnlineProxyIO said:

Anti-detect browsers are built to automatically handle the stripping and tweaking of detectable elements, so you don’t have to go hunting for workarounds yourself. These browsers are all about spoofing or randomizing things like WebGL, canvas data, fonts, and other system identifiers, making your setup look like a legit user. Unlike older methods like Selenium, which require you to manually adjust properties and still might leave behind traces, anti-detect browsers take care of the entire fingerprinting process. That means even the most advanced detection systems have a harder time spotting automation. They're a much more reliable choice for high-security tasks.

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