Browser cookie auto-extraction is not viable: modern Chromium App-Bound
Encryption (Chrome 127+/current Brave) keys cookies off a SYSTEM-level
layer that cannot be decrypted off disk without admin rights and AV-flagged
SYSTEM impersonation, and fails on Brave specifically. Drop the
`--from-browser` flag, `_auth_from_browser`, `src/browser_tokens.py`, its
test, and the browser-cookie3 dependency. Auth is manual (DevTools wizard)
only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
chatgpt.com uses Cloudflare's TLS fingerprinting (JA3/JA4) which
blocks Python requests regardless of cookies. curl_cffi impersonates
Chrome's exact TLS handshake, making requests indistinguishable from
a real browser at the transport layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jesse.MarkowitzandClaude Sonnet 4.6