Antidetect Browser replaces or masks the browser's digital fingerprint, which websites use to identify users. Websites take a digital fingerprint to identify users who multi-account. This is the name for managing multiple accounts from one device. Multi-accounting is prohibited in some social networks, advertising platforms, bookmaker sites, etc.
How do websites detect multi-accounting?
By IP. They block suspicious addresses, prohibit creating multiple accounts from one address. Usually, a proxy or VPN is used to change the IP.
By behavior. If a user uses a website in some non-standard or strange way, they may receive a warning, captcha, or ban. For example, on the Facebook advertising platform, publishing several ads in a row will be considered suspicious, because this is often done by scammers who hack accounts and launch a large number of ads through them.
By a special set of information about the user's device, which is called a digital fingerprint, or fingerprint.
The main purpose of the anti-detect browser is to provide a substituted fingerprint with a different set of parameters instead of real information about your device.
What is a fingerprint?
A fingerprint is a large set of various characteristics of the user's hardware and browser. Each of these characteristics can be common: for example, there will be many users with the Windows 11 operating system, Chrome browser, and a screen resolution of 1920x1080. But if you add another 30-40 parameters for verification, then you can determine the uniqueness of the user with a high probability.
On checkers like AmIUnique, you can compare your fingerprint with the fingerprints of other users by a number of parameters and estimate the probability that your fingerprint is unique.
Fingerprinting does not require storing data on the user's side, so this method of identification is difficult to notice and hard to bypass: the site simply requests characteristics from the browser and recognizes the visitor based on them.
Unlike cookies, the unique features of the fingerprint cannot be simply disabled. This is due to the fact that the parameters of your browser and system transmitted to the server are an integral part of the browser's operation when visiting web pages. For example, in order to correctly display a site, it needs to know what your screen resolution is, what browser you are using, and what language you have installed. Therefore, the device through which you entered the site does not hide your data, but provides it for better functioning of the services.
Some of the parameters included in the digital fingerprint
Slight changes in some features included in the fingerprint will not prevent the identification of an already familiar user. You can change your browser, move to another time zone, or change the screen resolution, but if you do not do all this at the same time, the probability of identification will remain high.
How do anti-detections help bypass restrictions?
Each security system works a little differently, and there is certainly no answer to the question “how to pass any anti-fraud without problems”. Therefore, developers of anti-detection browsers are constantly researching and analyzing new trends in the operation of security systems in order to come up with the best possible bypass methods.
Using Octo Browser as an example, we will tell you how anti-detection allows you to bypass site protection from multi-accounting.
Blending in with the crowd
To avoid any suspicions from antifraud systems, you need to make sure that the user looks completely unremarkable to them. Octo Browser uses the Chromium platform, which is also the basis for more than three dozen popular browsers, including the undisputed market leader, Google Chrome. Most other antidetects also work on this platform.
At the same time, antidetects usually remove all unnecessary things from Chrome: for example, Octo cut out Google's tracking mechanisms, such as RLZ, histograms, UMA metrics, as well as all Chrome features tied to Google services, such as synchronization, password management in the cloud, etc. That is, the browser is based on a version of Chromium, freed from all Google Chrome tracking mechanisms, but at the same time as similar to it as possible from the point of view of sites.
To prevent anti-detection profiles from “flashing” among regular users when updating Chrome, developers update their browsers. In Octo, this happens within a few days after each Chrome update.
Changing the fingerprint
A high-quality fingerprint substitution means that the site will not be able to obtain true information about the device or browser in any way until the user allows it. It is also important that the information that the security system receives is consistent, that is, the facts do not contradict each other. For example, if your operating system is identified as MacOS, and the system fonts are from Windows, this can be a reason for a ban.
Security systems have many ways to check the fingerprint: from the User-agent request to the analysis of the device's hardware fingerprints, such as Canvas and WebGL. They are formed when the browser renders a hidden image on the page. Each device will render slightly differently depending on the specific set of hardware and software. Therefore, based on how exactly this rendering is performed, a long hash is formed, which is used for identification.
We will not go into detail about how exactly substitutions occur in anti-detections for two reasons. Firstly, different anti-detections have different approaches: many of them are limited to a minimum set of parameters for substitution, which allows bypassing only the most basic protection. In the case of Octo, substitution is performed by 50+ parameters, at the kernel level. Real user fingerprints are used for substitutions, which do not raise questions from security systems. And secondly, the details of how substitutions work are a commercial secret.
To check if there are any leaks of real information from the anti-detect browser, checkers are used. There are a lot of them, and their operating principles are also slightly different. Popular ones include Browserleaks, PixelScan, Whoer.
We provide multi-accounting tools
In addition to fingerprint substitution, the anti-detect browser should also have the ability to conveniently manage multiple accounts. In the case of Octo, the developers added all the functionality necessary for anti-detect to the cleaned version of Chrome: first of all, the ability to create and manage browser profiles, each of which can be configured with a fingerprint. Another must-have: you can connect a proxy to each profile. It is imperative to use high-quality proxies, because they are responsible for IP substitution. If your proxies are “exposed” in the database of unreliable ones, then no anti-detect will save you from a ban.
The browser is optimized to run a large number of profiles, there are automation tools via API. There are also tools for teamwork, working with cookies, video stream substitution, imitation of manual input and much more. All this allows you to use your own profiles for different services or sites, and no tracking scripts can link visits or history of actions between different profiles.
Often, among the capabilities of antidetections, you can find special tools for working with Fb and Google, no-code automation and much more. These are all additional options that do not affect the quality of substitutions, but can improve the experience of working with anticom.
Keeping in shape
An antidetection browser cannot just be developed once. Website security systems are constantly being improved, Chrome is constantly updated, new needs of users appear. Therefore, the last in order, but not in importance, of the things that antidetection developers do is maintaining the good technical condition of the browser, the stability of its operation and the high quality of updates. It works out differently for everyone, but if we talk specifically about Octo, the service availability is 99.995%, that is, the browser works almost without interruptions. Updates are released frequently, they are well tested - everything is as it should be.
How do websites detect multi-accounting?
By IP. They block suspicious addresses, prohibit creating multiple accounts from one address. Usually, a proxy or VPN is used to change the IP.
By behavior. If a user uses a website in some non-standard or strange way, they may receive a warning, captcha, or ban. For example, on the Facebook advertising platform, publishing several ads in a row will be considered suspicious, because this is often done by scammers who hack accounts and launch a large number of ads through them.
By a special set of information about the user's device, which is called a digital fingerprint, or fingerprint.
The main purpose of the anti-detect browser is to provide a substituted fingerprint with a different set of parameters instead of real information about your device.
What is a fingerprint?
A fingerprint is a large set of various characteristics of the user's hardware and browser. Each of these characteristics can be common: for example, there will be many users with the Windows 11 operating system, Chrome browser, and a screen resolution of 1920x1080. But if you add another 30-40 parameters for verification, then you can determine the uniqueness of the user with a high probability.
On checkers like AmIUnique, you can compare your fingerprint with the fingerprints of other users by a number of parameters and estimate the probability that your fingerprint is unique.
Fingerprinting does not require storing data on the user's side, so this method of identification is difficult to notice and hard to bypass: the site simply requests characteristics from the browser and recognizes the visitor based on them.
Unlike cookies, the unique features of the fingerprint cannot be simply disabled. This is due to the fact that the parameters of your browser and system transmitted to the server are an integral part of the browser's operation when visiting web pages. For example, in order to correctly display a site, it needs to know what your screen resolution is, what browser you are using, and what language you have installed. Therefore, the device through which you entered the site does not hide your data, but provides it for better functioning of the services.
Some of the parameters included in the digital fingerprint
Slight changes in some features included in the fingerprint will not prevent the identification of an already familiar user. You can change your browser, move to another time zone, or change the screen resolution, but if you do not do all this at the same time, the probability of identification will remain high.
How do anti-detections help bypass restrictions?
Each security system works a little differently, and there is certainly no answer to the question “how to pass any anti-fraud without problems”. Therefore, developers of anti-detection browsers are constantly researching and analyzing new trends in the operation of security systems in order to come up with the best possible bypass methods.
Using Octo Browser as an example, we will tell you how anti-detection allows you to bypass site protection from multi-accounting.
Blending in with the crowd
To avoid any suspicions from antifraud systems, you need to make sure that the user looks completely unremarkable to them. Octo Browser uses the Chromium platform, which is also the basis for more than three dozen popular browsers, including the undisputed market leader, Google Chrome. Most other antidetects also work on this platform.
At the same time, antidetects usually remove all unnecessary things from Chrome: for example, Octo cut out Google's tracking mechanisms, such as RLZ, histograms, UMA metrics, as well as all Chrome features tied to Google services, such as synchronization, password management in the cloud, etc. That is, the browser is based on a version of Chromium, freed from all Google Chrome tracking mechanisms, but at the same time as similar to it as possible from the point of view of sites.
To prevent anti-detection profiles from “flashing” among regular users when updating Chrome, developers update their browsers. In Octo, this happens within a few days after each Chrome update.
Changing the fingerprint
A high-quality fingerprint substitution means that the site will not be able to obtain true information about the device or browser in any way until the user allows it. It is also important that the information that the security system receives is consistent, that is, the facts do not contradict each other. For example, if your operating system is identified as MacOS, and the system fonts are from Windows, this can be a reason for a ban.
Security systems have many ways to check the fingerprint: from the User-agent request to the analysis of the device's hardware fingerprints, such as Canvas and WebGL. They are formed when the browser renders a hidden image on the page. Each device will render slightly differently depending on the specific set of hardware and software. Therefore, based on how exactly this rendering is performed, a long hash is formed, which is used for identification.
We will not go into detail about how exactly substitutions occur in anti-detections for two reasons. Firstly, different anti-detections have different approaches: many of them are limited to a minimum set of parameters for substitution, which allows bypassing only the most basic protection. In the case of Octo, substitution is performed by 50+ parameters, at the kernel level. Real user fingerprints are used for substitutions, which do not raise questions from security systems. And secondly, the details of how substitutions work are a commercial secret.
To check if there are any leaks of real information from the anti-detect browser, checkers are used. There are a lot of them, and their operating principles are also slightly different. Popular ones include Browserleaks, PixelScan, Whoer.
We provide multi-accounting tools
In addition to fingerprint substitution, the anti-detect browser should also have the ability to conveniently manage multiple accounts. In the case of Octo, the developers added all the functionality necessary for anti-detect to the cleaned version of Chrome: first of all, the ability to create and manage browser profiles, each of which can be configured with a fingerprint. Another must-have: you can connect a proxy to each profile. It is imperative to use high-quality proxies, because they are responsible for IP substitution. If your proxies are “exposed” in the database of unreliable ones, then no anti-detect will save you from a ban.
The browser is optimized to run a large number of profiles, there are automation tools via API. There are also tools for teamwork, working with cookies, video stream substitution, imitation of manual input and much more. All this allows you to use your own profiles for different services or sites, and no tracking scripts can link visits or history of actions between different profiles.
Often, among the capabilities of antidetections, you can find special tools for working with Fb and Google, no-code automation and much more. These are all additional options that do not affect the quality of substitutions, but can improve the experience of working with anticom.
Keeping in shape
An antidetection browser cannot just be developed once. Website security systems are constantly being improved, Chrome is constantly updated, new needs of users appear. Therefore, the last in order, but not in importance, of the things that antidetection developers do is maintaining the good technical condition of the browser, the stability of its operation and the high quality of updates. It works out differently for everyone, but if we talk specifically about Octo, the service availability is 99.995%, that is, the browser works almost without interruptions. Updates are released frequently, they are well tested - everything is as it should be.
