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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.

2026-08-12 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.

Compared with the alternatives

Named, sourced, and dated. Where a vendor's price is not on their own page, we say so instead of quoting a number.

Incognitonvs AntiBrow →Octo Browservs AntiBrow →Dolphin Antyvs AntiBrow →ixBrowservs AntiBrow →Browserbasevs AntiBrow →AdsPowervs AntiBrow →Multiloginvs AntiBrow →GoLoginvs AntiBrow →

// Every competitor figure on those pages carries its source and the date we captured it. Where we could not source a number, it is missing rather than estimated.