How to Hide "Chrome Is Being Controlled by Automated Software" Infobar Within Chrome V76

Unable to hide Chrome is being controlled by automated software infobar within Chrome v76

As of 1 Aug 2019 - You can send the excludeswitch - enable-automation to hide the message. and to disable pop up 'Disable developer mode extensions' set
useAutomationExtension=false . Refer for useAutomationExtension

Tested on : Windows 10
Version 76.0.3809.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
ChromeDriver 76.0.3809.68

--enable-automation : Inform users that their browser is being controlled by an automated test Reference

     "goog:chromeOptions": {

        "excludeSwitches": [ "enable-automation" ],
        "useAutomationExtension": false
     }

In C# :

To disable pop up "Disable developer mode extensions" and automation info-bar message .

options.AddExcludedArgument("enable-automation");
options.AddAdditionalCapability("useAutomationExtension", false);

In JAVA :

options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);

In Python :

options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)

In Protractor :

Add below capabilities in conf.js/conf.ts

capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome',
    "goog:chromeOptions": {
      "excludeSwitches": [ "enable-automation" ],
      "useAutomationExtension": false
   }
  },

How to get rid of the infobar Chrome is being controlled by automated test software through Selenium

When you open Chrome Browser in through ChromeDriver this infobar containing the notification is embedded as follows:

Chrome is being controlled by automated test software

• Browser snapshot without the argument disable-infobars:

But if you add the argument disable-infobars through an instance of ChromeOptions you can get rid of this infobar as follows:

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
  
  options = Options()
  options.add_argument('start-maximized')
  options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
  

• Browser snapshot applying the argument disable-infobars:

disable-infobars argument unable to hide the infobar with the message Chrome is being controlled by automated test software with ChromeDriver v2.36

New version of ChromeDriver has been released - 2.37.
It again supports:

options.addArguments("disable-infobars");

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