Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver?

Question

I\'ve been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you\'re using Selenium even though there\'s no automation at all. Even when I

Answer 1

One more thing I found is that some websites uses a platform that checks the User Agent. If the value contains: "HeadlessChrome" the behavior can be weird when using headless mode.

The workaround for that will be to override the user agent value, for example in Java:

chromeOptions.addArguments("--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36");