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direct CDP has been used by the scraping community for a long time in order to have a cleaner browser environment that is harder to fingerprint. for example nodriver (https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver) was started in Feb 2024 and I suspect this technique was popular before that project started.

I really like both nodriver and pydoll. I am definitely keeping the option of switching to them open, but we just wanted to have full control for now and see how painful CDP-use is to maintain first and then reconsider.

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