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Everything on guide

Every guide, comparison and detector run we have published under guide.

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Playwright persistent contexts, and what they still do not give you

launchPersistentContext keeps cookies between runs, which is half of an identity. The other half is the fingerprint staying identical too, plus the API differences that trip people up. A practical guide with the gotchas.

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Residential vs datacenter proxies, and the mistake that wastes both

Residential is not automatically better and datacenter is not automatically dead. What actually decides the outcome is whether the proxy is bound to the identity, and most setups get that part wrong in a way that is easier to detect than the IP itself.

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How to check a browser profile before you trust it with an account

A high anonymity score means little. What gets profiles flagged is contradiction between signals, not any single value. A checklist of the pairs that must agree, and how to test each one in a few minutes.

Article 4 min

How anti-bot systems decide you are a bot

DataDome, Kasada, Cloudflare and PerimeterX do not run one check, they score a risk profile from network, TLS, fingerprint, behaviour and history. Understanding which layer flagged you is the difference between fixing it and guessing.

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WebGL fingerprinting explained, mechanically

A page asks your GPU to identify itself, then measures dozens of rendering limits and a drawn scene's pixels. No permission prompt is involved, and the result is one of the most informative signals a browser exposes.

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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.

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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.