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_e on Aug 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Detecting Chrome headless

Were the irc bots able to render javascript or were the bots using a cli lib like python requests?

I thought that a client which doesnt run javascript would be a huge red flag.

kuschku on Aug 6, 2017 [–]

They used Firefox with off-screen rendering, as otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get the title of many pages – even many blogspot blogs can’t be read without JS anymore.

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