I know I may just be loosing my time here, because I'm not suppose to see what's going on in headless mode, but I sometimes connect via VNC to the Xvfb session to debug things and this translate pop-up annoys me.

First, I know about --disable-translate, I see it's still used in SeleniumBase default config, but this flag seems to have been removed since 2017. Then, there is --disable-features=Translate, but this one seems to have been removed too (only in kiosk mode?, related issue).

I've tried to use these flags in SB, as well as others, e.g. lang, but it doesn't help. My code is:

import asyncio
import mycdp

from seleniumbase import cdp_driver
from seleniumbase.undetected.cdp_driver.browser import Browser
from seleniumbase.undetected.cdp_driver.tab import Tab

async def main():
    browser: Browser = await cdp_driver.start_async(ad_block=True,
                                                    lang='it-IT',
                                                    user_data_dir='/tmp/uc_zlnpod6m',
                                                    browser_args=[
                                                        '--lang=it-IT',
                                                        '--disable-translate',
                                                        '--disable-features=Translate'])

    await browser.main_tab.send(mycdp.emulation.set_locale_override('it_IT'))
    tab: Tab = await browser.get('https://www.corriere.it')
    await asyncio.sleep(50)
    browser.stop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(main())

Nothing works, I still get the pop-up.

Then, I've tried to modify the user_data_fir Preferences file, with the values below, but the preferences seems to be overwritten:

{
    "intl": {"accept_languages": "it-IT,it"},
    "translate": {"enabled": false},
    "translate_blocked_languages": ["it"]
}

Actually, the only thing that works is this comment which says to create /etc/chromium/policies/managed/disable_translate.json with content:

{
  "TranslateEnabled": false
}

I could leave it here and use this solution, but it leaves outside of my code, so I don't really like it.

Any other idea? It's strange that this only impacts headless mode.

Thanks,
nyg