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Exactly. A lot of stupid tokens has applications, but it's not a plug-in replacement for a subscription for most.

... yet.

In fact I'm running qwen3.8-flash-next with a Playwright-mcp docker and it is far better for scraping than my ChatGPT or Claude subscription, for the simple reason that sites aren't lying to Playwright.

I don't understand, your subscription models can also use Playwright, you don't even need to setup an mcp, they'll automatically download playwright-cli and get going.

Sites don't lie to Claude operated Playwright either.

Not to invalidate your point, just saying it's a bit of a straw man.

Sure, but that's not what the subscription uses.

You can just tell it to use playwright instead of the browser skill. This has nothing do with the subscription but with how tool discovery works.

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