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OpinionWhy 70% of Your Scraping Traffic Doesn't Need a Browser (2026)
Most scrapers default to headless Chrome for everything. We tested 60+ domains and found that roughly 70% of requests resolve at the cheapest tier — plain HTTP or JA4 fingerprinting. Here's the data, the reasoning, and what it means for how you build scraping infrastructure.
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