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  • (let's keep in on the downlow)

    time for another approach to run your agent's web searches through this (or by mocking browser signature), with potential cf bypass built-in!

    by rldjbpin
  • I'm intrigued! There's so much movement in the sandbox space. Can someone tell me how a V8 sandbox compares to say Fireworks or if they've chosen one over the other? I think, from a technical standpoint, that it's neat that we already have an entire sandbox in the browser (albeit with a bit of chrome) but someone tell me why it shouldn't be used that way
    by momojo
  • Just to throw in the context window, another agentic browser (headless): https://lightpanda.io/
    by ElijahLynn
  • Hi, I’m the creator of Obscura. This has been a pretty strange few days. I had no idea Cloudflare had tried porting Obscura until I read this post. Seeing something I built mentioned as the starting point for Kitesurf is an honor, and I appreciate the team giving the project credit.

    From what I understand, Kitesurf eventually went in its own direction and isn’t simply Obscura running on Workers. Still, knowing that Obscura helped get the original experiment started means a lot.

    I recently added native rendering to Obscura. It can now take screenshots, stream screencasts, and generate PDFs without Chromium. The repository has also passed 21,000 stars.

    For context, I’m 16 and have mostly been building this with my friend, so I’m still figuring out what the project should become and how to keep developing it sustainably.

    Happy to answer any questions about Obscura or the rendering work.

    by wh0ar3y0u
  • 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.
    by cautiouscat
  • 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?

    by QuantumNomad_
  • I am not against the idea but Cloudflare should honestly split itself and spinoff the CDN and DDOS/Cybersecurity company if it's also going to do agents.

    These two feel like they are opposing teams, I don't think they are colluding today, but how long will that last, this seems very suspicious I say that as a long time cloudflare user, I welcome making the platform agent friendly and adding agent specific deployment cloud stuff like Cloudflare OS is something I can live with as well.

    But this is going a bit too far, what's next AI bot net to scrape content from sites protected by Cloudflare? I don't want to sound entitled but man do we deserve better.

    by minraws
  • 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)

    by nicoburns

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