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No global holds an unnamed native function

Pim· Clearcote Research 1 min readCheck id no-unnamed-native-globals

No own property of window holds a native function whose name is empty (severity: warn).

What a detector infers

The DevTools protocol lets an automation client put a function on the page with Runtime.addBinding, so page code can call back into the client. The binding appears as a property of window whose value is a native function with an empty name. Chrome's own globals are all named after themselves, and functions a page defines are not native, so a nameless native function on window has no ordinary source.

Drivers that hide their bindings behind random property names still leave this shape. Measured on 2 November 2026 on Windows: genuine Chrome 156 and Clearcote under its SDK have no such global.

How to resolve it

Do not expose functions to the page through Runtime.addBinding (a driver's exposeFunction or exposeBinding) on pages that should look ordinary, or remove them before the page can enumerate window.

How automation gets caught, layer by layer

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Who builds this test

Clearcote is a browser built for fingerprint coherence

It is a Chromium fork, maintained by the same people who wrote this reference. It ships as a compiled browser rather than as a stealth script injected into someone else's — which is a description of how it is built, and is not an argument about how it behaves on this check.

This audit takes no position on how Clearcote scores on Automation surface checks, on this one, or anywhere else. It has no baseline corpus of other people's fingerprints to rank you against and no vendor scoreboard — nearly every check is self-referential, asking one browser the same question through two independent APIs and reporting whether both answers can be true at once. It runs identically on any browser, including ours. Run it on yours and read the result yourself.

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