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

I've found changing the javascript "key" variable like this:

//Fools the website into believing a human is navigating it
        ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.key = \"blahblah\";");

works for some websites when using Selenium Webdriver along with Google Chrome, since many sites check for this variable in order to avoid being scrapped by Selenium.