BrowserAct vs Playwright: Where Test Automation Hits Real-World Anti-Bot Friction (Hands-On Comparison) (opens in new tab)

You’ve built something with Playwright. It works perfectly in your local environment. CI is green. Tests pass. Everything looks production-ready and stable. Then you deploy it against a real website. And immediately, things start breaking: 403 Forbidden Cloudflare keeps loading reCAPTCHA blocking everything Or the page loads… but your agent gets silently flagged At first, this looks like something in the logic is wrong, or a selector is broken, or timing is off. But it's not. The problem isn’...