Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
Fortress is a new stealth Chromium engine designed to help web scrapers and browser agents bypass bot detection systems. By patching the browser's native code to present a human-like fingerprint, it allows automated tools to operate without being blocked by services like Cloudflare.
Why it matters
This tool represents the ongoing arms race between web automation developers and cybersecurity systems designed to prevent bot traffic.
Fortress is a stealth Chromium engine that stops your scrapers and browser agents from getting blocked, with one line of code change. Bot detectors flag automation by reading the browser fingerprint; Fortress corrects that fingerprint inside Chromium's C++, so the browser presents as an ordinary Chrome install. Scrapers finish their runs, agents reach the pages they were sent to, and CreepJS, Sannysoft, BrowserScan, and live Cloudflare Turnstile all read it as human. Point your existing Playwright or Puppeteer at Fortress over CDP, and nothing else in your code changes.
The article describes a technical product and its capabilities without expressing a moral judgment on its use.
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