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Comment by jasonwcfan

I mentioned this in another comment, but I know from experience that it's impossible to reliably differentiate bots from humans over a network. And since the right to automate browsers has survived repeated legal challenges, all vendors can do is make it incrementally harder to weed out the low sophistication actors.

This actually creates an evergreen problem that companies need to overcome, and our paid version will probably involve helping companies overcome these barriers.

Also I should clarify that we're explicitly not trying to build a playwright abstraction - we're trying to remain as unopinionated as possible about how developers code the bot, and just help with the network-level infrastructure they'll need to make it reliable and make it scale.

It's good feedback for us, we'll make that point more clear!

parent jasonwcfan 2 years ago

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