Python Selenium WebDriverException Empty HTML - python

My code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chome.service import Service
broswer = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(R"C:\ProgramData\Google\ChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe")
At the last line, I get a WebDriverException with the following details:
Message: <!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlsn="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
</body>
</html>
Although it worked perfectly yesterday, for some reason it doesn't work today and the error message isn't really helpful to me. I've tried many different ChromeOptions, as well as with Edge and the EdgeDriver, but it's the same result with that empty HTML result and error. I've done a lot of Googling but can't find any solution that works, as every other post has a more detailed error to troubleshoot.

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I don't know why my selenium is not working. It just open the browser (Chrome) with the URL and then doing nothing even to maximize the window, not even inserting the form.
Is there anything wrong with my code:
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The Selenium bot captures whole HTML PAGE before the server print out their contexts.
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And in fact, it does, for example here: http://ironpython.net/browser/examples/pycon2010/start.html
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