Anti-detect Browsers — How They Work, Which Anti-detect Browser to Choose, Personal Experience, and a Bit of Code
Anti-detect browsers emerged as a response to the spread of browser fingerprinting technologies – the covert identification of users based on a combination of their device’s parameters and environment. Modern websites, besides using cookies, track IP addresses, geolocation, and dozens of browser characteristics (such as Canvas, WebGL, the list of fonts, User-Agent, etc.) to distinguish and link visitors. As a result, even when in incognito mode or after changing one’s IP, a user can be detected by their “digital fingerprint” – a unique set of properties of their browser.
In fact, when I first started my journey in these internet realms, my expertise in digital security was evolving—and continues to grow—and I eventually came to understand browser fingerprints. At first, I believed cookies—collected by those pesky search engines that tracked what I viewed—were to blame, then I learned about browser fingerprints and long denied that I needed to learn to work with and understand them. Really, just when you finally figure out proxies, learn how to change and preserve cookies, here comes a new twist. Moreover, it turns out that fingerprints are also sold, and the price is not exactly low. In short, money is made on everything! But that’s beside the point now!
Ananti-detect browser is a modified browser (often based on Chromium or Firefox) that substitutes or masks these properties (fingerprints), preventing websites from unequivocally identifying the user and detecting multi-accounting.
Ladybird Browser: First Impressions & Easy Installation Guide
In this article, I would like to introduce a new web browser called Ladybird. This ambitious open-source project aims to revolutionize the browsing experience. Although it hasn't been officially released, I had the opportunity to test it on Ubuntu. In this article, I'll show you what it looks like and explain how you can run it on your computer.
How to Save on Your Netflix Subscription: A Step-by-Step Guide Using Proxies and Antidetect Browser
Corporations that dominate the market can impose their conditions on customers. This is also the case with everyone's favorite Netflix. When you make good content and you are sure that your audience wants to consume your content, you can start to increase the subscription price gradually. But the distribution of subscription costs around the world is unequal. This happens not only with Netflix, it happens with many big corporations: Microsoft, Sony, etc.
Naturally, everyone wants to watch high-quality content, but no one wants to overpay for it. And that led to creation of different schemes, for example, the one I'm going to describe here.
The essence of the scheme is simple – you buy a subscription for another region while staying in your home region. Of course, you can do this, but before I describe the scheme in detail, you should understand that Netflix is not as simple as it seems. When buying a subscription, for example, as a user from Pakistan, you should know that only the content that is allowed in that country will be available to you. Meaning, any sign of eroticism in movies, for example, is forbidden there.
And now this scheme appears in a completely opposite light. You can use my scheme if you want to access content that is blocked in your country, but you need to be prepared that the price will not be the same as for your region.
Top Three cheapest countries (in terms of the Netflix subscription price)
How I create browser applications inside browsers
In 2013 Canonicaltried to crowdfund Ubuntu Edge smartphone. Its main feature could be the ability to use the smartphone as a full-fledged PС. Unfortunatly, the crowdfunding campaign did not accumulate enough money, so a dream of having a universal device remained to be the dream.
I've been searching for universality, too, on the software side, not the hardware one. Today I can confidently say I found the necessary combination: Git and JavaScript.
As you know, I have already described the benefits of browser applications (nCKOB static site generator) and the benefits of using Git instead of yet another back-end with API (GitBudget to track personal spendings). Once GitBudget was out, I spent the remaining 2020 to build a system allowing one to create browser applications right inside browsers. GitJS is the name of that system.
How to use Google docs offline with the new Microsoft Edge
Improving form controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
Over the past few months, we’ve been collaborating closely with the Google Chrome team on this project, and are excited to share the refreshed controls that will be coming to Microsoft Edge Insider builds, or other Chromium browsers near you.
On the way to durable applications with PSKOV static site generator as an example
Hi, my name is Michael Kapelko. I have been developing software professionally for more than 10 years. I develop games and game development tools in my spare time.
This article describes my first durable application for desktop PCs: PSKOV static site generator.
Durability
A durable application is an application that functions without a single change on operating systems released in years 2010-2030. In other words, a durable application has backward compatibility of 10 years and has the stability to run for 10 years. Actually,PSKOV runs even under Windows 2000, so PSKOV has backward compatibility of 19 years.
Microsoft Edge for macOS
Last month, we announced the first preview builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Edge Canary channel for macOS. You can now install preview builds from the Microsoft Edge Insider site for your macOS or Windows 10 PC, with more Windows version support coming soon.
Breaking UC Browser
Introduction
At the end of March wereported on the hidden potential to download and run unverified code in UC Browser. Today we will examine in detail how it happens and how hackers can use it.
Some time ago, UC Browser was promoted and distributed quite aggressively. It was installed on devices by malware, distributed via websites under the guise of video files (i.e., users thought they were downloading pornography or something, but instead were getting APK files with this browser), advertised using worrisome banners about a user’s browser being outdated or vulnerable. The official UC Browser VK group had atopic where users could complain about false advertising and many users provided examples. In 2016, there was even acommercial in Russian (yes, a commercial of a browser that blocks commercials).
As we write this article, UC Browser was installed 500,000,000 times from Google Play. This is impressive since only Google Chrome managed to top that. Among the reviews, you can see a lot of user complaints about advertising and being redirected to other applications on Google Play. This was the reason for our study: we wanted to see if UC Browser is doing something wrong. And it is! The application is able to download and run executable code, whichviolates Google Play’s policy for app publishing. And UC Browser doesn’t only download executable code; it does this unsafely, which can be used for a MitM attack. Let's see if we can use it this way.
cyberd: Computing the knowledge from web3
The original post has been updated based on community input in order to remove confusion.
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