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I have a few questions. Does it update the whole screen each time something is changed on the page? How have you got rid of Google captcha? I didn't get any while I was using it.

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Yes, it listens for LayerTree.layerPainted events, and queues a screenshot on that. It also queues screenshots on other things, such as on "clicks", "scrolls" and a few other interactions.

After Screenshots are queued, they're throttled to a low framerate, and then each frame is compared with the last sent, before it is sent to the client, and dropped if there's no change.

I got rid of CAPTCHA by changing the search provider to DDG.

Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate it! :)

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