When You Get Banned But Respawn As 10 New Accounts

It might happened sometimes even for the cleanest account to get flagged then banned from social media platform for “suspicious activity” or “controversial content”. After been taken down, 10 more new accounts pop up, with different identities and continue the grind alive. It isn’t called hacking, it’s rather be known as digital respawning, comeback with more. Bans are just minor inconveniences, and one person yet to run an army of fakers. This is where anti-detect browser shine where able to handle multiple accounts at once.

What Is An Anti-Detect Browser?

As the name couldn’t give anymore hint, anti-detect browser is that allow you to create multiple browser profiles, each with its very own fingerprint. This means could be different IP addresses, cookies, time zones, device types, browser versions or even geolocation. While towards social media platforms, it could make each account looks like completely controlled by different human from different locations and different instances. Such ways are not illegal but definitely not for innocent browsing during bedtime.

Why Anti-Detect Browser Been Used?

Nobody will installs it just to watch cat videos or mukbang in peace. There could be what is it purposed for:

• Running bots or automation tools safely
  Risky operations need safe covers. These browsers provide exactly that.
• Bypassing account bans
  Creating multiple accounts with same IP and even on same locations within short time seems natural and will land all accounts getting ban.
• Multi-account social media marketing
  Not a secret but marketers usually use anti-detect browser to run dozens of accounts across multiple platforms.
• A/B Testing for different countries or personas
  As able to simulate different location as well, it become very useful to do testing across different places while doesn’t even need to leave own room.
• Dodging platform restrictions
  Normal for certain countries to block certain platforms (TikTok!), or certain geo-restrict on certain features.

How It’s Actually Go And Work?

Now let’s go in “slow motion” to really see how anti-detect browser been used. Let’s have a very simple scenario to see it in action:

1. Open your anti-detect browser.
2. Generate a new profile with fresh fingerprint.
3. Assign a clean proxy (residential, mobile, whatever you like).
4. Login with a fresh or aged account.
5. That’s all, repeat step 2 to generate more.

You want 100 more? just repeat it! Got ban? Do it another one! That’s how it work.

Such Ways Seems Illegal! Is It Really..?

Now here how it goes, it easier to cross the line but based on how you use it:

• Running anti-detect browser?
  Absolutely legal
• Violating platform Terms of Service (ToS)?
  Still legal, just that you most likely get banned or worst IP being blocked.
• Doing scams or fraud with it?
  Definitely illegal. Even without through anti-detect browser, it is already illegal

So it is not the tool that is illegal but more on the motives behind of using it. Tool is like a knife which can be use to serve sashimi, but it also can be used stab someone dead as well.

How It Been Used And What Risks Behind?

Professionals been using it in their ways which comes in real handy. Agencies been using it to able to manage multiple clients’ accounts across regions, it just not possible without it. While testers able to check on how sites behave on different IPs and devices. Also could be used to check on localized stored on shopping platforms like Lazada or Shopee. In “not so ethical way”, it also been used by fake followers sellers too.

How it could be risky? Well there’s still a risk if not use it carefully. One of it, having a bad proxies. It could trigger the accounts been detected as fake and higher risk of getting ban, together with poor configuration on fingerprint. Other ways around, rookie mistake still can be made like mistakenly logged into wrong accounts.

Adapt Or Get Outplayed

With great invisibility comes great responsibility. Indeed it’s a very effective stealth tech but if fell on wrong hands, could be used for spam, scam or fraud. When everyone are using such ways, it goes onto the grey area too. Blurring the line between authentic interaction and digital puppetry due to one could be used to amplify own content artificially till it completely lost the organic touch of it. Power goes to the hands that wield it.