<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: Detecting Chrome Headless
categories: [Bot detection]
tags: [Browser Fingerprinting]
description: This post presents techniques that enables to distinguish a vanilla Chrome browser from a Chrome browser running in headless mode.
---
**Edit:** Since some of the techniques presented in this post don't work anymore I created a <a href="{% post_url 2018-01-17-detect-chrome-headless-v2 %}"> new post</a> that presents new techniques to detect Chrome Headless. 
**PhD opportunity:** if you are interested in doing a PhD on browser fingerprinting and/or privacy, feel free to contact me by email.

# What's a headless browser?
A headless browser is a browser that can be used without a graphical interface.<commit_msg>adds line<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: Detecting Chrome Headless
categories: [Bot detection]
tags: [Browser Fingerprinting]
description: This post presents techniques that enables to distinguish a vanilla Chrome browser from a Chrome browser running in headless mode.
---
**Edit:** Since some of the techniques presented in this post don't work anymore I created a <a href="{% post_url 2018-01-17-detect-chrome-headless-v2 %}"> new post</a> that presents new techniques to detect Chrome Headless. 

**PhD opportunity:** if you are interested in doing a PhD on browser fingerprinting and/or privacy, feel free to contact me by email.

# What's a headless browser?
A headless browser is a browser that can be used without a graphical interface.
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