How to enable javascript in selenium webdriver Chrome using python

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answers provided here won't work. instead, use

    options.add_argument("--enable-javascript")
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Updated on June 30, 2022

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    I am trying to open https://www.guidestar.org/ using selenium webdriver but it is able to detect I am a bot. The email I received says that javascript was not enabled so they were blocking my IP address. Can anyone suggest a code to enable javascripts

    user_agent = 'Chrome/73.0.3683.86'
    username = os.getenv("USERNAME")
    userProfile = "C:\\Users\\" + username + "\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default"
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user_agent}')
    options.add_argument("user-data-dir={}".format(userProfile))
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
    driver.get("http://www.guidestar.org")
    

    I expected the website not to detect that I am a robot