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Notes from the arms race.

What actually gets a profile flagged, how agents drive a real browser, and the detector runs behind our claims.

5 min

Antidetect browsers for AI agents in 2026, compared with sources

Every roundup in this category is written by a vendor. This one is too, and we are last on our own list where the criterion says we should be. Verified pricing captured 2026-08-01, one honest recommendation per use case.

4 min

When a Playwright stealth plugin stops being enough

Stealth plugins are free, they work, and for a one-off script we would use one too. The failure is not detection on day one, it is what happens on the release that moves the goalposts, and what a plugin never covered in the first place.

4 min

What browser fingerprinting actually is, and why blocking it backfires

Fingerprinting identifies you from the combination of hundreds of ordinary browser properties, no cookies required. The counterintuitive part: aggressive blocking usually makes you more identifiable, not less.

4 min

Why accounts still get flagged after you bought the antidetect browser

The most common complaint in this category is that people set up a fingerprint browser and residential proxies and got banned anyway. Usually the tooling was fine. Here is what the tooling never covered, ranked by how often it is the real cause.