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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

44 pointsby m3htoday at 10:42 AM14 commentsview on HN

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nicoburnstoday at 2:00 PM

This is built on top of Blitz (https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz): a new modular (open source) browser engine that I've been building for the last 2.5 years.

(I wasn't involved in building kitesurf, but I am informed that they intend to open source and upstream their patches)

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QuantumNomad_today at 1:40 PM

From the page https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/ linked to from this article:

> Run headless Chrome on Cloudflare's global network for browser automation, web scraping, testing, and content generation.

Does Cloudflare the CDN allow these browser instances to bypass their own anti-bot mechanisms? Or will Cloudflare the CDN block them the same as if someone was running scraping bots from a different provider?

Will Kitesurf in Cloudflare workers get special bypass privileges to content protected by Cloudflare the CDN?

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cautiouscattoday at 3:15 PM

Can someone give me examples of where you use agents in your browser? I’ve heard executive leaders tout that “people use agents to buy things for them” but I haven’t actually seen that.

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LetsGetTechnicltoday at 2:37 PM

Ugh

zuzululutoday at 2:59 PM

wish it was open source so it can be run locally

a welcome addition although it'd be very easy for websites to fingerprint and block