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In that video, I did some reverse engineering to create a stealth mode in an automation framework to bypass bot-detection and CAPTCHAs. It works from GitHub Actions Linux servers without needing a proxy (which is generally unheard of).

Looks like that one hasn't received any major updates in awhile.

The secret ingredient is to use Playwright's `connect_over_cdp()` method to connect to an existing browser that is already stealthy. Playwright can then perform its usual actions without being detected by anti-bot services. Example setup: `browser = playwright.chromium.connect_over_cdp("http://localhost:9222")`

Mix in some Python, PyAutoGUI, SeleniumBase, ThreadPoolExecutor, and then you get some serious multi-threaded CAPTCHA-bypass.

You can set `browser="firefox"`, but there's no stealth mode for it.

It's OK. No offense was taken. It almost looked like the conversation was expanding into a "Python vs Java" debate, but (thankfully) it did not. I've seen both worlds. I've seen advantages to both. I decided to stay in the Python world.

Thank you!

The "Python vs Java" debate is probably one for a different Hacker News post. :)