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Academy
Fourteen lessons about why platforms link accounts and what actually moves the needle. They are meant to be read in order: the first answers the question you arrived with, the last says where a browser stops helping.
14 lessons
Read in order
- Why platforms link accountsA platform does not decide that two accounts belong to one person by reading their names.
- What a site reads about youIn one visit a site gets answers you never typed.
- The fingerprint part by partA fingerprint is not one value.
- The address you leave throughAn address does not hide you.
- The first week of a new accountA new account is fragile because it has no past for a platform to weigh today against.
- Where the line is on second accountsWhether you may hold a second account is settled by the platform's own rules, and those rules come in a few recognisable shapes.
- Working as a team without shared passwordsTwo people work on one account by sharing the profile, not the password.
- How automation gives itself awayA platform does not catch a script by finding the script.
- What to do after a banThe first move after a block is to stop, not to open a replacement.
- Checking your own setupA check tells you what your browser answers, never what a platform decides.
- What an app sees and a page does notAn application installed on a handset reads the system it sits in, and a page reads only the browser it is opened in.
- Moving work between machinesA profile moves between computers and the machine it ran on stays behind.
- Five mistakes and what they costEvery mistake below is one the app already refuses or warns about, which is how we know people meet it.
- What a browser cannot fixA browser separates workplaces.