To deactivate the proxy server on Windows 10, you need to perform the following steps:
Open the "Windows Settings" menu.
Go to the "Network and Internet" tab.
Open the "Proxy Server" section.
Deactivate the "Use setup script" option.
Deactivate "Use proxy server" option. Reboot your computer. If the proxy server option has not been disabled, deactivate the "Define parameters automatically" option in the "Proxy server" section. After that you have to restart your PC again.

While using Selenium for web automation, it's important to note that websites can detect the presence of automation tools, including Selenium. To reduce the chances of detection, you can take certain measures to make your Selenium-driven browser instance appear more like a regular user. Here are some techniques to hide Selenium from the browser

1. User Agent Spoofing

Change the user agent of the browser to mimic that of a real user. This can be done by setting the user agent string before launching the browser:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

2. Window Size and Position

Set the window size and position to common values used by human users. This can be done using the set_window_size and set_window_position methods:

driver.set_window_size(1366, 768)
driver.set_window_position(0, 0)

3. Disable Browser Extensions

Disable browser extensions to make the browser instance more similar to a clean user profile:

options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")

4. Headless Mode

Run the browser in headless mode, which means it runs without a graphical user interface. Headless mode can be less likely to be detected:

options.add_argument("--headless")

5. Disable Images and CSS

Some automation detection mechanisms analyze whether images and CSS are loaded. You can disable them:

prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2, "profile.managed_default_content_settings.stylesheet": 2}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)

6. Change Automation Flags

Some websites use JavaScript to detect automation. You can experiment with changing the values of WebDriver-related flags:

options.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled")

7. Use Proxies

Rotate IP addresses using proxies to mimic different users accessing the site.

To find an element by its HTML code in Selenium, you can use the ExecuteScript method to execute JavaScript code that returns the element corresponding to the provided HTML code. Here's an example of how to do this using C#:

Install the required NuGet packages:

Install-Package OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.WebDriver -Version 3.141.0
Install-Package OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI -Version 3.141.0

Create a method to find an element by its HTML code:

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public static IWebElement FindElementByHtml(this IWebDriver driver, string htmlCode)
{
    // Execute JavaScript to create a new element with the provided HTML code
    var script = $@"var div = document.createElement('div'); div.innerHTML = arguments[0]; document.body.appendChild(div); return div.children[0];";
    var element = (IWebElement)driver.ExecuteScript(script, htmlCode);

    // Remove the created element from the DOM
    driver.ExecuteScript("document.body.removeChild(document.body.children[document.body.children.length - 1]);");

    return element;
}

Use the FindElementByHtml method in your test code:

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using System;

namespace SeleniumFindElementByHtmlExample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Set up the WebDriver
            IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();

            // Navigate to the target web page
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.example.com");

            // Find an element by its HTML code
            IWebElement element = driver.FindElementByHtml(@"
                

                    
Example Heading
                    
Example paragraph text.
                
");

            // Perform any additional actions as needed

            // Close the browser
            driver.Quit();
        }
    }
}

In this example, we first create a method called FindElementByHtml that takes an IWebDriver instance and a string containing the HTML code as input. Inside the method, we use the ExecuteScript method to execute JavaScript code that creates a new element with the provided HTML code, appends it to the document body, and returns the created element.

We then remove the created element from the DOM using another ExecuteScript call. The method returns the created element as an IWebElement.

In the test code, we set up the WebDriver, navigate to the target web page, and use the FindElementByHtml method to find an element by its HTML code. After finding the element, you can perform any additional actions as needed.

Remember to replace the HTML code in the FindElementByHtml method call with the actual HTML code you want to use.

To enable STL 1.0 and 1.1 support in the latest Firefox via Selenium, you can set the stlVersion preference in FirefoxOptions. Here's an example of how to do this:

First, import the necessary libraries:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

Create a FirefoxOptions instance and set the stlVersion preference:

options = Options()
options.set_preference("services.stl.version", "1.1")

Initialize the WebDriver with the FirefoxOptions instance:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)

Use the WebDriver as usual:

driver.get('https://example.com')
# Perform actions on the web page
# ...
driver.quit()

By setting the services.stl.version preference to "1.1", you enable STL 1.1 support in the latest Firefox via Selenium. Note that the exact preference value may change depending on the Firefox version. You can check the Firefox release notes or source code for the latest information.

When using a proxy, Google Chrome warns the user about it at startup. To connect directly, you must disable proxies at system level. That is, go to "Settings" Windows, then - "Network and Internet", in the section "Proxy server" disable the corresponding item.