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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.

4 min

Where automation profiles should live, and why not beside the ones you manage

A script that opens one browser per task creates one profile per task, and every tool that lists profiles then has to list them forever. Temporary profiles go in a separate tree the desktop app never reads, and nothing in it is deleted for you, which is the point.

4 min

Running a browser on your own desktop without it stealing focus

A launch that jumps to the front is fine once and unusable in a loop, and going headless to avoid it changes what the page can measure. There is a third option: keep a real, normally sized, visible window and stop only the part that interrupts you.

4 min

Why starting a browser no longer puts the profile in the cloud

A loop that opens 400 browsers should not decide that you now have 400 cloud profiles. The sync option has three states rather than two, and the difference between the default and an explicit false is the part worth understanding.