title: Disable ONLY Chrome Automation Extension in Selenium
body: <p>I've been researching this extensively but i have yet to even find a single topic about this specific question. I use python to access Selenium Webdriver, and have been disabling the extensions through python using the code </p>
  
  <pre><code>chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
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  <p>Recently though, i've wanted to load a custom profile, and that means custom extensions. is there a way to get rid of ONLY the automation extension?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KRnia.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KRnia.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>ALSO, as a follow up curiosity, what even makes the chrome browser automatically start out with this extension loaded? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>