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1. dvt · 1790918686 · focus · HN ↗

   I built an AI "web harness" running on a sandboxed Chromium (using a custom side-loaded plugin that talks over websockets to a "driver") to basically do anything a normal user could do in a browser. It totally bypasses any and all bot measures and only gets the ones you yourself would get as well (and passes those successfully, e.g. Cloudflare checkbox or those annoying OCR puzzles).

   Not sure if I should release it, but I'm sure more people are catching onto the power of agentic browsing.

   1. bayindirh · 1790919329 · focus · HN ↗

      Thanks for letting us know that we need a new layer of detection systems.

      Also it’s great(!) to see that we’re going from “but ethics” to “I got mine, who cares”.

      Humans are interesting creatures.

      Edit: Please before assuming that I'm assuming things, this is an observation I'm making over time. It's possible that I'm in a bubble, but it's not a sample size of 1 (i.e. The comment I replied only).

      1. jareklupinski · 1790945112 · focus · HN ↗

         humans also change over time

         in batman, bruce wayne shuts does the massive surveillance network, seeing it was problematic (2008)

         in spiderman, peter parker just shrugs off being able to know where anything is happening anytime (2026)

         1. bayindirh · 1790945438 · focus · HN ↗

            > humans also change over time

            Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Citing myself:

            > Also it’s great(!) to see that we’re going from “but ethics” to “I got mine, who cares”.

            This is exactly how I observe a shift in general.

            1. jareklupinski · 1790945973 · focus · HN ↗

               maybe it'll go backwards? or the direction is chaotic / tick-tock

               1. bayindirh · 1790946744 · focus · HN ↗

                  I believe that the movement is sinusoidal,since every trend feeds its counterbalance.

                  OTOH, stabilizing at "0" or any point is impossible since the system is 2nd order and the response of the system is also an input to itself.

                  1. jareklupinski · 1790950679 · focus · HN ↗

                     > sinusoidal

                     > OTOH, stabilizing

                     any function is stable; im just dissppointed if its predictable / manipulable / only has 2d

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