In my selenium test (with chromedriver-2.24) I'm trying to access my webpage via basic authentication with the following statement:

WebDriver driver  = ...;
driver.get("http://admin:admin@localhost:8080/project/");

But Google Chrome gives me the following warning in the console:

[Deprecation] Subresource requests whose URLs contain embedded credentials (e.g. https://user:pass@host/) are blocked. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5669008342777856 for more details.

In the tagged link it is mentioned that the support was dropped:

Drop support for embedded credentials in subresource requests. (removed)

My question now is, is there an other way to basic authenticate with selenium?

NOTE: that this other question has not helped me: How to Handle HTTP Basic Auth headers in Selenium Webdriver using Java ?