[GitHub Trending] CloakHQ/CloakBrowser
8.3 relevance
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technical depth 8
novelty 8
actionability 8
community 7
strategic 4
personal 6
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Stealth browser for bot evasion, good for scraping but not primary interest.
Summary
CloakBrowser is an open-source stealth Chromium fork with 49+ C++ patches that modify fingerprints at the binary level, achieving a 0.9 reCAPTCHA v3 score and passing 30+ detection sites including Cloudflare Turnstile. It provides a drop-in Playwright/Puppeteer API replacement — just swap the import — with features like auto-updating binaries, humanize mouse curves, and a self-hosted profile manager. Built on Chromium 146, it includes 57 fingerprint patches, native SOCKS5 proxy support, and a CDP multiplexer for multi-connection stealth.
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CloakHQ