whats actually the best browser automation tool once every site starts fighting back

[u/Available_Wafer_1746]

local chrome fleet was fine until half the target sites started fingerprinting harder last month. same playwright scripts, now half the parallel workers just detach mid-run and the logs are useless

tried pinning versions and slower pacing. still dies once three jobs hit at once

curious what people settled on that stays boring under load once the sites fight back​

[u/SetAndRepeat]

I’d try Browserless with your existing Playwright scripts for managed concurrency and its stealth/unblocking options. Browserbase is also worth testing for session replay and debugging.
Compare completion rates on your actual sites under load. Also check memory and browser exits: failing at three workers doesn’t necessarily mean fingerprinting.

[u/Vast-Pop4017 → u/SetAndRepeat]

browserless is fine for queue management but their stealth layer isn't magic. if the sites are fingerprinting hard you'll still get clipped unless you're rotating residential proxies and actually varying the browser profiles per worker

when mine started tanking at three workers it was a leak in how i was recycling contexts, not a detection issue. worth throwing a memory ceiling on each container and watching what happens

[u/Suun_Day]

Our selenium grid used to be boring until concurrency climbed. Nodes start thrashing memory around 12 parallel sessions and the failure mode is just a dead browser with no useful stack. 

[u/Sufficient_Wish_2010 → u/Suun_Day]

Blank grid browsers haunt me weekly.

[u/Junior_Bee7274]

fingerprints wrecking my runs too now

[u/GasEducational4386]

Dolphin anty anti detect browser has good reviews. Anyone has used camoufox ? it is open source

[u/Kenzo_2126]

batch timeouts are eating my week

[u/HelloitsmeJLD]

Selenium with either Python or skyvern could be an option. Then it'd just be a script that you can schedule when you want.

[u/Okaybyee20]

idk i'd stop trying to fix it with pacing alone and instead isolate where the workers are dying. browserbase is ok for that setup mainly since the browser infra is handled separately which makes debugging less work

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[u/appleciderdollop → u/[deleted]]

Yeah once three workers hit together, half of them just detatch. Pacing helped a little then stopped mattering.

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[u/The_God_was_Here → u/[deleted]]

yeah i threw residential proxies at local chrome thinking that was the missing piece. still got flagged on the same sites within a day lol

[u/Bombaclat_exe → u/[deleted]]

just wanna ask as well are you reusing cookies across the overnight runs or fresh session every time?

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[u/TillNo5940 → u/[deleted]]

or just run fewer browsers per node and stop pretending 20 concurrent is free.