Firefox SOCKS Proxy

Most often it is used on the iPhone just to bypass the blocking of access to certain resources. But also VPN is one of the most effective methods of protecting your confidential information. After all, with VPN all traffic is additionally encrypted, the provider can't read it even if it's intercepted.

Chromium does not support proxies in-house. There is a corresponding item in the menu, but clicking on it will open the regular proxy server settings in Windows or MacOS.

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.

Using the "Start" button, go to the search engine and type regedit into it. Once the registry editor opens, go to the address you specified: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft, and then click on the Microsoft folder. On the "New" submenu, select the "Key" option, name it Internet Explorer and click on enter. Now right-click on the Control Panel key you have created and select the DWORD (32-bit) Value option on the "New" submenu. Give the key a name Proxy, and then click enter. In the created DWORD parameter, put 1 instead of 0, click on "OK" and reboot the computer.

In the browser settings, select "Open Browser Settings" and then, finding the "Advanced" button, go to the "System" section. Click on the button "Open proxy server settings for computer" and in the section "Manual proxy settings" move the slider to the position "On". Now enter in the appropriate fields the IP address, proxy, port and click "Save".