The first week of a new account

A platform judges an account against its own past, and a new account has none. What it does today is the entire record.

An account with three years behind it can have a strange day and keep its standing. An account three hours old has nothing else to be read by.

The first day is setup, and the account is opened at the end of it rather than at the start.

Everything in this list happens before the platform sees anything at all.

1. 1

   One profile for one account

   The use case you pick sets the start page, the tracker lists and the daily numbers.

2. 2

   An address of its own

   The proxy goes in before the first launch: a first login from your home address cannot be taken back.

3. 3

   The exit named out loud

   The start page opens first and shows the address, the country and the engine behind this profile.

4. 4

   The self test

   Test fingerprint in the card menu runs the checks inside a real browser and reports how many passed.

5. 5

   A history before the account

   The cookie robot browses ordinary public sites in the profile, so the account is opened in a browser someone has been using.

6. 6

   The login, last of all

   Sign in, read a few pages and stop. A short first day is a good first day.

Nothing below is enforced by the app and none of it comes from a platform. It is a careful shape for the week, and the numbers beside it are the ones the app carries.

A new profile does not carry its full daily number on day one. It starts at a fifth and reaches the whole figure on the seventh day.

Day one is the day the profile was created, and the same fractions touch every per-action number.

One counted action is one page opened in a profile window. The count belongs to the window that reported it, so a page cannot add to a profile it does not run in.

The day starts over on the change of the UTC date rather than at your local midnight. A deleted profile takes its counter with it.

• Counted

  A page you open in the profile: an address you type, a link you follow, a redirect that lands somewhere new.

• Counted as well

  A page a recorded flow opens, because it loads in the same profile window as the rest.

• Not counted

  Frames inside a page, images, background requests, and the start page the app opens for you.

• Not counted either

  A tab you opened an hour ago and are still reading.

The bar under the count is green below 80 percent of today's number, amber from there, and red at it. Nothing is prevented at any point.

A block would mean the app deciding for you, on a figure we chose, about an account it knows nothing about. The number sits in front of you so the choice is an informed one.

The per-action numbers beside the bar are shown rather than tallied. A browser sees a page open, not an invitation sent.

Fifty accounts signing in inside one minute from one machine read as one script, whatever the fifty names say. In the first week there is nothing else about them to read.

A bulk launch waits a random 3 to 14 seconds before every opening after the first, and that is the most a browser can do here. The rest is the work itself: the same text, the same hour, the same order.

From the seventh day the full ceiling applies and the card stops naming a warm-up day. It shows how long ago the profile was made instead.

That line is the age of the profile on your machine, not of the account behind it. A profile made today for an account from 2019 still reads day 1 of 7.