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Glossary
Glossary
The words this trade uses, defined in one sentence each, with the measurement behind them where we have one. Where a term touches something our product does, the page ends with the file and the stand that hold the claim.
100 termes
A
- Account banAn account ban is a platform's decision to close or suspend an account, taken on its side and not undone from a browser.
- Account warmingAccount warming is building a new account up slowly so its first days read as a person settling in rather than a script.
- Antidetect browserAn antidetect browser is a browser that keeps each account in a profile of its own, with its own device values and its own way out.
- API keyAn API key is a long random string a program sends instead of a password to act on one account.
- ASN (Autonomous System Number)An ASN is the number of the network an address belongs to, and it says who runs that address rather than where it sits.
- AudioContext fingerprintAn AudioContext fingerprint is an identifier a site builds from the numbers a browser returns after rendering a sound.
- Audit logAn audit log is a record of who did what inside an account, written as it happens and only ever added to.
B
- Battery Status APIThe Battery Status API is a browser call that tells a page the charge level, the charging state and the time left.
- BlinkBlink is the rendering engine inside Chromium, and it answers nearly everything a site asks about your machine.
- Bookmark syncBookmark sync is a service that copies your saved links between browsers and devices through an account you sign into.
- Browser automationBrowser automation is driving a real browser from code, so that pages open and act with nobody at the keyboard.
- Browser extensionA browser extension is a package of web code the browser loads with permissions no ordinary page is given.
- Browser fingerprintA browser fingerprint is a set of device values a site reads without asking and combines into one identifier.
- Browser isolationBrowser isolation is running a web page away from your computer, so that only a stream of what it drew reaches your screen.
- Browser profileA browser profile is a separate browser with its own cookies, its own device values and its own way out to the network.
- Build flagsBuild flags are the settings chosen before a browser is compiled and they decide what the finished binary contains.
C
- Canvas fingerprintA canvas fingerprint is an identifier a site builds from how your machine draws a picture.
- Canvas noiseCanvas noise is a defence that shifts pixels before a site reads them, so a drawing carries a value of its own.
- CAPTCHAA CAPTCHA is a test a site shows when it wants proof that a person, and not a program, is asking.
- Chrome DevTools ProtocolChrome DevTools Protocol is the channel a program uses to drive a Chromium browser and read back what it shows.
- ChromiumChromium is the open source browser project that Chrome and most other desktop browsers are built from.
- Chromium forkA Chromium fork is a browser compiled from patched Chromium sources, so its behaviour is changed before any page runs.
- Code signingCode signing is a signature on a program that names its publisher and shows that the bytes have not changed since.
- Cookie jarA cookie jar is the store of cookies a browser keeps, together with the rules deciding which cookie goes with which request.
D
- Data residencyData residency is the question of which country the machines physically holding your data stand in.
- Datacenter proxyA datacenter proxy is an exit address from a hosting network, rented per address for a month rather than per gigabyte of traffic.
- Device farmA device farm is a rack of real phones or computers, one account to a device, used to keep accounts apart by hardware.
- Device fingerprintA device fingerprint is an identifier built from the machine itself: its screen, its graphics chip, its cores and its memory.
- Device memoryDevice memory is the amount of memory a browser reports, rounded down to a power of two and never above eight.
- Digital fingerprintA digital fingerprint is everything a service can learn about you without asking, from the device up to the way you behave.
- DNS leakA DNS leak is your own machine asking which address a site has, while the visit itself goes out through a proxy.
E
- Encryption at restEncryption at rest is protection applied to stored data, so a copy of the file is worth nothing to whoever holds no key.
- EntropyEntropy is the measure of how far one reading narrows the crowd a browser could be hiding inside.
- Exit nodeAn exit node is the last machine on your route, and its address is the only one the site you open ever sees.
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H
- Hardware concurrencyHardware concurrency is the number of logical processors a browser reports to any page that asks for it.
- Headless browserA headless browser is a real browser that runs with no window on screen and is driven by code instead of a person.
- HTTP proxyAn HTTP proxy is a server that makes web requests on your behalf and opens a plain tunnel for the encrypted ones.
I
- Iframe realm leakAn iframe realm leak is a difference in the fingerprint between a page and a frame the page created inside itself.
- Incognito modeIncognito mode is a browser window that throws away its own storage when you close it, and changes nothing else about you.
- IP reputationIP reputation is the view a platform takes of an address, built from what it has already seen done through it.
- IPv6IPv6 is the newer form of internet address, written as groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons.
- ISP proxyAn ISP proxy is a static exit address registered to a consumer internet provider while the machine behind it stands in a datacenter.
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M
- Media devices enumerationMedia devices enumeration is the list of microphones, speakers and cameras a browser hands a page before any permission.
- Mobile proxyA mobile proxy is an exit address from a carrier network, shared at the same moment with the real phones on that same tower.
- Multi-accountingMulti-accounting is holding several accounts on one platform and keeping them from being read as one person.
N
- navigator.languagesnavigator.languages is the ordered list of languages a browser reports, from the one it prefers down to its fallbacks.
- navigator.platformnavigator.platform is a short string in which a browser names the operating system family it runs on.
- navigator.webdrivernavigator.webdriver is the value a browser sets to true while an automation tool is at its controls.
- NotarizationNotarization is an automated check Apple runs over a signed app, after which macOS opens it without stopping.
P
- Password managerA password manager is a program that keeps account credentials under one key and puts them into sign-in forms for you.
- Patch setA patch set is an ordered list of source changes applied to an upstream tree before anything is compiled.
- PlaywrightPlaywright is an open library that drives Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers from one set of commands.
- Plugin arrayA plugin array is the list of browser plugins any page can read about you at navigator.plugins without asking.
- Profile isolationProfile isolation is keeping each profile's browsing data in a folder of its own, so that two profiles cannot read each other.
- Proxy authenticationProxy authentication is the login a proxy demands before it will carry a single request for you.
- Proxy chainingProxy chaining is sending traffic through two or more proxies in a row, so that no single one of them sees both ends.
- Proxy latencyProxy latency is the delay a proxy adds between a request leaving your browser and the first answer coming back.
- PuppeteerPuppeteer is an open Node library that drives a Chromium browser over the browser's own control channel.
R
- Rate limitA rate limit is a ceiling on how many calls one caller may make in a window before the answer becomes a wait.
- Residential proxyA residential proxy is an exit address on an ordinary household internet line, rented out through the provider that serves it.
- Role-based access controlRole-based access control is a rule that decides what a person may do by the rank they hold, not by who they are.
- Rotating proxyA rotating proxy is one entry point whose exit address changes, either on the seller's own schedule or on command.
S
- SchedulerA scheduler is the part that starts a job at an hour you chose instead of at the moment you press a button.
- Screen resolutionScreen resolution is the size of your display as a page reads it, in layout points rather than in physical pixels.
- SeleniumSelenium is an open toolset that drives browsers through WebDriver, a standard command set served by a separate driver program.
- Session transferA session transfer is moving what keeps an account signed in to the same profile on another computer.
- Shadow banA shadow ban is a quiet limit on who sees an account's posts, applied without notice and known only to the platform.
- SOCKS5SOCKS5 is a proxy protocol that forwards whole connections and can be asked to resolve the site name at the far end.
- SSH tunnelAn SSH tunnel is an encrypted connection to a server you control that carries your browsing out through its address.
- Stealth pluginA stealth plugin is an add-on for an automation framework that rewrites browser values in the page to hide a script.
- Sticky sessionA sticky session is a proxy setting that holds you on one exit address for a stated time instead of moving you each request.
- SynchronizerA synchronizer repeats what you do in one browser window inside the other windows you picked to follow it.
T
- Team workspaceA team workspace is one paid account that several people sign into separately, each with a seat and a rank.
- The window.chrome objectThe window.chrome object is the set of Chrome specific properties a real Chrome leaves on every page it opens.
- Timezone spoofingTimezone spoofing is making a browser report the clock of the country its address belongs to instead of its own.
- TorTor is a network that carries traffic through three volunteer relays so no single relay knows both you and the site.
- TOTPTOTP is a one time code that two sides derive from a shared key and the clock, good for one short step.
- Two-factor authenticationTwo-factor authentication is a sign-in that asks for a second proof, so a password on its own opens nothing.
U
- User agentA user agent is the line a browser sends with every request to name itself, its version and its system.
- User agent spoofingUser agent spoofing is replacing the line a browser sends about itself so a site reads a different browser or system.
- User data directoryA user data directory is the folder where Chromium keeps one browser's cookies, logins, site storage and settings.
- User-Agent Client HintsUser-Agent Client Hints are request headers and a script object through which a browser reports its identity in separate fields.
V
- V8 JavaScript engineV8 is the JavaScript engine inside Chromium, and it runs every script a site uses to ask about your machine.
- Virtual machineA virtual machine is a whole computer in software, running its own system and reporting one set of device readings inside.
- VPN vs proxyA VPN and a proxy both change the address a site sees, and neither changes what your device answers.
W
- Web scrapingWeb scraping is reading data out of a page the way a visitor sees it and keeping it as your own records.
- WebGL fingerprintA WebGL fingerprint is an identifier a site builds from the strings your graphics card reports and the image it renders.
- WebGL renderer stringA WebGL renderer string is the line a browser returns for the chip, the driver and the graphics layer that drew a frame.
- WebGL vendor stringA WebGL vendor string is the line a browser returns for the maker of the graphics chip that draws a page.
- WebGPU fingerprintA WebGPU fingerprint is an identifier a site builds from what the newer graphics interface reports and renders.
- WebhookA webhook is a call one server makes to another the moment something happens, instead of waiting to be asked.
- WebRTC leakA WebRTC leak is a browser handing a site the addresses of your own network while it sets up a call.
- Worker realm leakA worker realm leak is a difference in the fingerprint between a page and a background thread that the page started.
- WorkflowA workflow is an ordered set of steps a machine repeats the same way every time it is handed the same job.