Internet security is becoming increasingly important, and our online behavior is becoming easier to track and analyze. One of the powerful technological tools is browser fingerprinting, which can be said to be an identity symbol of your Internet surfing.
I. What is Browser Fingerprint?
Browser fingerprint is a technology used by websites and online platforms to collect detailed information about your browser, device and network. When you visit a website, the browser automatically displays specific information about itself, which includes the user agent (browser type and version), operating system, screen resolution, installed plug-ins, fonts, time zones, language preferences, and more. All of this collected information is combined to form a unique fingerprint that can be used to identify the user’s device and identity, and by which websites can recognize and correlate your browsing activity across multiple websites, even if you clear your cookies or use a different IP address. Therefore, it is important to modify your browser fingerprint.
II. Importance of Browser Fingerprint
1. Privacy protection: Websites and online services can use browser fingerprints to track and analyze user behavior. With a unique fingerprint, they are able to identify and track your online activities on different websites, and thus build a comprehensive profile of your behavior, interests and preferences.
2. Prevent account association: If you have multiple accounts and each account has a unique browser fingerprint, websites and services will not easily associate these accounts, thus ensuring account security and independence. For example, this is especially important for cross-border e-commerce sellers or people engaged in multi-account business to avoid being warned or blocked by platforms due to account association.
3. Identify returning users: Even if a returning user clears a cookie or uses a different IP address, a website can use a browser fingerprint to identify the returning user. If your fingerprint is unique, it will be the identifier for the website to recognize you when you visit its platform again.
III. Ways to Modify Your Browser’s Fingerprints
1. Use Fingerprint Browser: Fingerprint Browser is a kind of browser that can modify fingerprints and disguise fingerprints. There are many fingerprint browsers available in the market, such as VMLogin, Multilogin and so on. Take the well-known brand VMLogin as an example, after installing VMLogin, open the client:
(1) New or Edit Browser Profile: Click “New Browser Profile” or “Create New Browser Profile”. You can also right-click on the created browser profile and select “Edit Profile” to continue to make changes.
(2) Customize fingerprint information: Enter the editing page of the profile, which is divided into options such as basic configuration and other configurations, users can customize or random configuration. Here you can modify fingerprint information such as time zone, default language, user agent, font, resolution, etc. The more detailed the fingerprint information is modified, the better the anti-association effect will be.
(3) Batch Create or Clone Browser: If you need to create a large number of browser profiles, you can also choose to batch create or clone browsers and then modify the details. In addition, cross-border e-commerce users or operators of overseas advertising can also import/export the cookies of relevant accounts, so that they can log in to a large number of accounts without passwords, which saves time, effort and worry.
(4) Use a proxy server: By using a proxy server, you can hide your real IP address, which can also affect browser fingerprint to some extent.
VMLogin Fingerprint Browser modifies browser fingerprints and secures multiple accounts in the following ways:
(1) Emulating the browser’s hardware profile: VMLogin can generate multiple secure browser environments, each with a unique fingerprint, to hide the user’s real identity and device information, ensuring isolation and independence between accounts. In this way, even if multiple accounts are used on the same device, each account has its own independent browser fingerprint and websites cannot easily associate these accounts, thus ensuring the security of multiple accounts.
(2) Proxy IP support: VMLogin also supports proxy IPs, which can simulate IP addresses in different regions. This not only increases privacy protection, but also further reduces the risk of accounts being linked. Because different IP addresses combined with different browser fingerprints make it more difficult for websites to determine whether these accounts belong to the same user.
(3) Isolation of multiple browsers: Multiple browser profiles created in VMLogin are isolated from each other and do not interfere with each other. Each browser has an independent browser fingerprint, cookie and cache, and will not be associated with cookies.
