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The main thing headless chrome saves is having to spawn and manage xvfb per instance.

If more sites adopt serving fake data to headless chrome, people will just return to the old xvfb workflow for those sites, and use headless for everything else.

Could even use a small set of xvfb scrapers to verify the results, and automate detection of false data.




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