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Getting site can not be reached error while opening site using selenium and c#

I am writing automation for one of the site. I am able to access that site in chrome when I open that site manually in chrome or incognito mode. But when I am trying to launch it using automation in any browser its giving me site can not be reached error
Below is my simple code -
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArguments("excludeSwitches", "enable-automation");
options.AddArguments("useAutomationExtension", "False");
options.AddArgument("incognito");
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Console.WriteLine("Test MY Site");
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60);
driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
driver.Manage().Cookies.DeleteAllCookies();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://example.net");
I tried with Selenium C#, Selenium Python , Cypress etc. but getting same error.
I also tried to launch site in chrome, edge, firefox and safari there also getting same error.
Note- I am using latest version of chrome, latest version of selenium and windows 10. I also tried after downgrading selenium and chrome
I have also tried setting proxy manual and automatic. also tried with no proxy setting. Internet connection is not at all issue since site is working fine when I am using that site manually in chrome
I found undetected-chrome driver helps in this case but I did find exe for undetected-chromedriver in order to launch site
Please help

How to use normal chrome completely without chromedriver selenium python not duplicate

How to use normal chrome completely without chromedriver selenium python not duplicate.
I am using python 3.8.8,os is windows 7 ultimate with pycharm as
IDE and chrome version is around 96. and my problem is that whenever I use my python script to scrape a website it uses chromedriver and when I specify what's given below:
options = Options ()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=my chrome path which is not Executable instead the user data")
#this works but when opening chrome it shows "browser is controlled by automated software" and changing it to normal chrome. Exe won't work
Sure it uses normal chrome with my credentials but it still needs chromedriver to work and when I delete the chromedriver it throw an error and when I go into selenium source code in a file called site.py(or sites.py) which I changed the variable self. executable to chrome.exe path and it worked and it won't show the message browser is controlled by automated software but it won't do anything , it is just stuck there and what I want to do is use chrome as the browser to scrape without chromedriver in my pc is it possible? If yes please tell me how should I go on to do it and you can ask for further Clarification and details and Thanks in advance

By default, selenium is detected as an automated software and is flagged by most websites, and the flag is unable to be removed. There are, however, external libraries that can be installed that can remove the flag.
There are options here to try to get around the default flag and hide the fact the browser is automated.
Edit
I understand the question further, and see that you want a more portable chrome option. Chrome driver is a very specific program controlled by selenium and must be used. There is no substitute. You can use Firefox driver or internet explorer, but a webdriver must be used (hence the name driver for driving the main browser). When you specify the directory for the Chrome binary, you aren’t removing the middleman of the chromedriver, only Specifying where chrome driver needs to look!

Using Selenium you won't be able to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session without the ChromeDriver.
The Parts and Pieces
As a minimum requirement, the WebDriver i.e the ChromeDriver talks to a browser through a driver and the communication is two way:
WebDriver passes commands to the browser through the driver
Receives information back via the same route.
Hence using ChromeDriver is a mandatory requirement.

Selenium server throws error when attempting to run test with chrome or Internet Explorer

I have a python webdriver script which successfully runs the test on the remote server using firefox, however it throws an error when using chrome and internet explorer.
I have added the directory with both drivers to the server's path. I have also tried starting the server using:
java -jar .\selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=.\IEDriverServer.exe -role hub
I consistently get the same error in powershell:
"... - Exception: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;..."
Working Script:
def setUp(self):
self.wd = webdriver.Remote(
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX)
Throws Error:
def setUp(self):
self.wd = webdriver.Remote(
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
What is the culprit of this problem?

You have the Selenium driver for Firefox installed and configured, but not for Chrome. Installing and configuring boils down to this (source):
Setup
ChromeDriver is a separate executable that WebDriver uses to control
Chrome. It is maintained by the Chromium team with help from WebDriver
contributors. If you are unfamiliar with WebDriver, you should check
out their own Getting Started page.
Follow these steps to setup your tests for running with ChromeDriver:
Ensure Chromium/Google Chrome is installed in a recognized location
ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default
location for your platform. You can also force ChromeDriver to use a
custom location by setting a special capability.
Download the ChromeDriver binary for your platform under the downloads section of this site
Help WebDriver find the downloaded ChromeDriver executable
Any of these steps should do the trick:
include the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable
(Java only) specify its location via the webdriver.chrome.driver system property (see sample below)
(Python only) include the path to ChromeDriver when instantiating webdriver.Chrome (see sample below)
So, basically, you need to either set the path to your Chrome drive in the PATH, or instantiate the drive like this:
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')

Download the Chromedriver
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\Users\\xxx\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http://www.seleniumhq.org/")

The code is for JAVA , set the path similarly in python
If the PATH is not set in your environment variable , then set it programmatically as below:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "Path_to_your_chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();

ChromeDriver Does Not Open Websites

I am experiencing a very strange behaviour when testing Chrome via selenium webdriver.
Instead of navigating to pages like one would expect the 'get' command leads only to the download of tiny files (no type or.apsx files) from the target site.
Importantly - this behavior only occurs when I pass chrome_options as an argument
to the Chrome driver.
The same testing scripts work flawless with firefox driver.
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options # tried with and without
proxy = '127.0.0.1:9951' # connects to a proxy application
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % proxy)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get('whatismyip.com')
Leads to the automatic download of a file called download (no file extension, Size 2 Byte).
While calling other sites results in the download of small aspx files.
This all happens while the browser page remains blank and no interaction with
elements happen = the site is not loaded at all.
No error message, except element not found is thrown.
This is really strange.
Additional info:
I run Debian Wheezy 32 bit and use Python 2.7.
Any suggestions how to solve this issue?

I tried your code and captured the traffic on localhost using an SOCKS v5 proxy through SSH. It is definitely sending data through the proxy but no data is coming back. I have confirmed the proxy was working using Firefox.
I'm running Google Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit. My Chrome browser gives me the following message when I try to configure a proxy in its settings menu:
When running Google Chrome under a supported desktop environment, the
system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not
supported or there was a problem launching your system configuration.
But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
google-chrome-stable for more information on flags and environment
variables.
Unfortunately I don't have a man page for google-chrome-stable.
I also discovered that according to the selenium documentation Chrome is using the system wide proxy settings and according to their documentation it is unknown how to set the proxy in Chrome programmatically: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#using-a-proxy

Does Chrome Web Drivers needs to be in Client's System while using Selenium

I have tried searching the official documentation, but no result. Does Chrome Web Driver needs to be in client's system for a python script using Selenium to run? I basically want to distribute compiled or executable file versions of the application to the end user. How do i include Chrome Web driver with that package?

Yes you will have to download and put chromedriver to your system and then need to call in selenium code.
Download chromedriver from here : Chromedriver for selenium
Below code will help you to call chrome driver using selenium with python :
import os
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = "/Users/mike/Downloads/chromedriver" [you please put your actual path of chrome driver]
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
Hope this help you.
If you are using selenium RC , then you can set path like below :
selenium = new DefaultSelenium(Server, ServerPort, "*googlechrome", DomainURL);

chromedriver needs to be installed on the machine that will launch the instance of the Chrome browser.
If the machine that launches the Chrome instance is the same machine as where the Python script resides, then the answer to your question is "yes".
If the machine that launches the Chrome instance is a machine different from the machine that runs your Python script, then the answer to your question is "no".