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How browsers are recognised, and how to stay in control.

Explainers and step-by-step guides from the team that builds Browz: fingerprints, AI agents in a real browser, proxies, multi-account work and security. Every claim about Browz links to evidence you can check.

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Browser profiles for privacy: keep work, personal and research browsing apart

How sites link your work, personal and research browsing, why private windows only go part way, and a step-by-step plan for one browser profile per role.

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Canvas fingerprinting explained: why random noise gives a browser away

How a canvas fingerprint is made, why it differs between computers, why blocking or random noise stands out, and how to test your own browser in two minutes.

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Connect a cloud AI agent to a browser on your own computer

How a remote MCP server lets a cloud AI agent, such as Claude.ai or an OpenAI agent, drive a browser profile on your own computer, and how to set it up.

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End-to-end encrypted profile sync: what the server can and cannot read

How end-to-end encrypted browser profile sync works, what a sync server still needs to see, how keys and recovery work, and five questions to ask any provider.

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Fingerprint consistency: why mismatched values give a browser away

Why detection systems care more about contradictions than rare values, the eight mismatches they check most, and console snippets to check each one yourself.

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Five AI agent browser recipes you can run today

Five complete AI agent browser automation examples: Claude Code over MCP, Playwright over CDP, a scheduled headless job, a human hand-off, and two accounts side by side.

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How to choose an anti-detect browser: 10 checks you can run yourself

Ten practical checks for choosing an anti-detect browser, from engine-level fingerprints and headless parity to proxies, sync encryption, teams, agents and refunds.

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How to give an AI agent a browser safely

Give an AI agent its own browser profile, its own limited key, sign-ins it can use but never read, and a person for the login. Step by step with Claude Code.

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How to manage multiple accounts safely, within each site's rules

Run several accounts you are allowed to hold without mixing sessions: check the terms, give each account its own profile and exit, and keep the setup tidy.

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How to test your browser fingerprint, and how to read the results

A step-by-step guide to running a browser fingerprint test, reading every section and consistency check, and comparing two runs to test browser profiles.

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How we benchmark AI agents in a browser: 50 tasks, open harness, raw results

The method behind our AI agent browser benchmark: 50 public web tasks, the same agent twice, scoring by program, the results, and how to rerun it yourself.

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How websites recognise automated and headless browsers

The signals sites use to spot automated and headless browsers: automation flags, headless differences, fingerprint contradictions, TLS, behaviour and IP reputation.

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Human hand-off for AI agents: let a person finish logins, 2FA and CAPTCHAs

Human in the loop for browser agents: the agent pauses, you finish the sign-in, 2FA code or CAPTCHA in the same window, and it carries on. How it works.

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Is an anti-detect browser legal? Privacy, site terms and acceptable use

Using an anti-detect browser is legal in most places; what decides it is your use. Privacy law, site terms, legitimate uses and how to check a use before you start.

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Managing client accounts as an agency: one browser profile per client

A practical setup for agencies running clients' ad, social and marketplace accounts: a profile per account, a folder per client, no shared passwords, clean offboarding.

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Match a profile's timezone, language and location to its proxy

Why a timezone or language that disagrees with the proxy's location stands out, how to check all five values in a minute, and how to stay matched when the exit moves.

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Playwright in a real browser profile: attach over CDP, not a fresh browser

Run Playwright scripts inside a saved browser profile with its own cookies, fingerprint and proxy: start the profile, then connectOverCDP. Node and Python examples.

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Prompt injection and browser agents: limit what a hijacked agent can reach

Prompt injection hides instructions in web pages for an AI agent to follow. Why browser agents raise the stakes, and the controls that cap what a misled agent can do.

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QA testing with browser profiles: see your site as each user and region does

Test a website as different users, roles and countries with one saved browser profile per test persona, each with its own exit, timezone and languages.

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Residential, datacenter, ISP or mobile proxies: which one a profile needs

Datacenter, residential, ISP and mobile proxies compared: how websites see each, sticky or rotating sessions, and which one suits a long-lived browser profile.

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Running several online storefronts where the platform allows it

How sellers with more than one permitted storefront keep each store's sign-in, staff, market and records apart, with one browser profile and one checked exit per store.

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Share account access with a team without sharing passwords

Give colleagues access to the accounts they work on without handing out passwords: share signed-in profiles by role and level, one device at a time, with a log.

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TLS fingerprinting (JA3 and JA4) explained for browser users

How sites fingerprint the TLS handshake and HTTP/2 settings before any page loads, what JA3 and JA4 measure, what changes them, and how to check your own browser.

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Use your own SSH server as a browser profile's proxy

Turn a server you control into an encrypted exit for a browser profile: how SSH tunnelling works, preparing the server, key sign-in, host-key pinning and checks.

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User agent and client hints: keeping JavaScript and headers in agreement

How the user agent string, Sec-CH-UA headers and getHighEntropyValues fit together, why changing only one of them gives a browser away, and how to check yours.

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WebGL and WebGPU fingerprinting: what your graphics card gives away

What WebGL and WebGPU reveal about your graphics card (names, limits, extensions, rendered images), why a fake renderer contradicts real hardware, and how to check.

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WebRTC leaks: how a page can find your real IP, and how to check a profile

How WebRTC can reveal the address behind a proxy, how to test a browser profile for a WebRTC or DNS leak in two minutes, and the settings that close both.

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What is an anti-detect browser? How it works and who it is for

An anti-detect browser runs separate profiles, each with its own consistent fingerprint, proxy, cookies and storage. How it works, who uses it and what to check.

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What is an MCP browser? Giving Claude, Cursor and other agents a real browser

An MCP browser is a browser an AI agent drives through the Model Context Protocol. What it exposes, local vs remote, and how to set one up in Claude and Cursor.

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What is browser fingerprinting? How websites recognise your browser

Browser fingerprinting identifies a browser from the details it reveals, without cookies. What goes into a fingerprint, why consistency matters and how to test yours.

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