5 posts in the Ward journal on this subject. Each one names the data it rests on, the tool that produced it and the claim it makes, at the bottom of the page.
Branded Chrome accepts --load-extension, loads nothing, and says so only in its own log. Measured on Chrome 151, where the old escape hatch is dead.
4 min readDivyansh Singh
The msedge.exe you spawn exits after sixty milliseconds. A different process publishes the debugging port later, and it is the one you wanted.
4 min readDivyansh Singh
No automation flag, no client attached, no WebDriver anywhere. One switch sets the property, measured on Chrome 151.0.7922.76 across two launches.
4 min readDivyansh Singh
Username and password in a SOCKS5 proxy URL are ignored by Chromium, silently. The fix is a local forwarding relay, and it solves a second problem too.
5 min readDivyansh Singh
Separate profile directories give separate cookies, storage, cache and extensions. Chromium's network state is keyed by site, and no flag splits it.
4 min readDivyansh Singh
Many browser profiles on one PC, each with its own proxy and its own device identity. Free plan, free account, nothing to buy today.