PLEASE Disable Passkeys Popups while Scraping

1. The problem

While scraping (gmaps).. I get constant passkey requests popups from google and sites being scraped. Normally, I can do disable Windows Hello passkey prompts in Chrome options .. but since we do not have access to browser settings in the scraper .. i think you need to turn this option off some other way.

Its driving me crazy. :rofl:

Can you send some screenshots of it?

I’m on Windows 11 but don’t see those requests popup.

Also some info on how you disable it chrome normally, I should be able to set browser options.

Are you using Windows Hello or passkeys yet?
If you do, that’s when it starts.

Chrome settings to shut off passkeys .. its part of Windows Hello Passkey system.

Believe it or not, the requests were being broadcast over my RDP connection .. which i thought was crazy. Then I found the latest Win11 RDP has the WebAuthn option checked by default. I unchecked it and it worked .. until I RDP’d again .. so you manually have to recheck it or save an RDP file. The only other workaround i found was to disable it in Group Policy Editor .. and that worked.

But I figure .. you could stop it at the source before it happens to everyone who starts using passkeys .. which I otherwise highly recommend.

Here is what a request looks like:

I don’t have hello or passkeys active. I do remember seeing that box before when I was setting up a new win 11 box. Thought it was weird you couldn’t disable it. However I haven’t seen it in SCM window.

Ill put in a patch for it that will hopefully block the window from appearing in the next update.

Please update when its ready and report back if it worked or not for you.