Chrome Flags Reference

Chrome command line switches and startup flags for automation, headless mode, and debugging.

--force-disable-variation-ids

What does --force-disable-variation-ids do?

Forces to remove Chrome Variation Ids from being sent in X-Client-Data header, specified as a 64-bit encoded list of numeric experiment ids. Ids prefixed with the character "t" will be treated as Trigger Variation Ids.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --force-disable-variation-ids using CLI

chrome --force-disable-variation-ids

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --force-disable-variation-ids using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--force-disable-variation-ids']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --force-disable-variation-ids using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--force-disable-variation-ids']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --force-disable-variation-ids using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--force-disable-variation-ids')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)