Is it possible to block Selenium Webdriver from working?

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Denis99992015-01-01 18:27:24

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Denis9999, 2015-01-01 18:27:24

I wrote a program that logs in to the site, performs certain actions, and now an error occurs when the button is pressed:
driver.find_element_by_id("exbutton").click()
Could the site owners block the operation of Selenium Webdriver?

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Alexey Ukolov, 2015-01-01
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They couldn't, selenium is just a program that opens a browser, the server doesn't know anything about it. And even if they did it (according to the user agent, for example), then not only the button would stop working for you.
Most likely, they just changed the layout or some kind of asynchrony there, which used to work by accident, but now your network has dipped and something does not have time to load, for example.

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Talik, 2017-01-10
@Talik0507

an example of a site and errors in the studio.