fix(browser-plugin-bot-detection): exclude BotD's spurious plugins-le… - #1499
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…ngth detector BotD's `detectPluginsLengthInconsistency` reports any non-Android Chromium browser with `navigator.plugins.length === 0` as headless Chrome. Chrome's `--headless=new` mode now reports plugins like a headed browser, while privacy-focused browsers legitimately report none, so the check only yields false positives. Rather than patch the dependency, compose BotD's exported `collect`/`detect` with our own detector set. A pnpm patch would only reach the UMD build, since the ESM build keeps `@fingerprintjs/botd` external and npm consumers would resolve their own unpatched copy. Mirrors fingerprintjs/BotD#194, which is approved upstream but unmerged and so absent from botd 2.0.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ngth detector
BotD's
detectPluginsLengthInconsistencyreports any non-Android Chromium browser withnavigator.plugins.length === 0as headless Chrome. Chrome's--headless=newmode now reports plugins like a headed browser, while privacy-focused browsers legitimately report none, so the check only yields false positives.Rather than patch the dependency, compose BotD's exported
collect/detectwith our own detector set. A pnpm patch would only reach the UMD build, since the ESM build keeps@fingerprintjs/botdexternal and npm consumers would resolve their own unpatched copy.Mirrors fingerprintjs/BotD#194, which is approved upstream but unmerged and so absent from botd 2.0.0.