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No, because playwright can be detected pretty easily and blocked. It needs to be (and will be) using the same browser that you regularly browse with.

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detecting playwright is not "easy"... It can be done but its cat and mouse. Playwright in non headless mode is nearly impossible to detect.

Its the other way around: it's easier to detect because detectors are looking for specific "fingerprints" and may even try to run specific JavaScript that will only work when there is a UI present.

(Source: did a ton of web scraping and ran into a few gnarly issues and sites and had to write a p/invoke based UI automation scraper for some properties)

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