E-commerce

A seller rarely has one account. One marketplace login for the United States, a shop aimed at the United Kingdom, two store panels kept for clients.

A marketplace does not see an account when you sign in. It sees a browser and a connection, and in one plain browser those are the same for every store you run.

• Cookies and storage

  One jar, so the session of one marketplace sits next to the session of the next.

• Saved logins

  One password store, holding every account ever typed into that browser.

• Device readings

  One screen, one graphics card, one font list, one timezone, offered to every site.

• Exit address

  One address, usually the one your other accounts have already been seen from.

• History

  The pages one account visits land in the same history as the next one.

Each of the usual answers closes part of the overlap and leaves the rest open. What is left open is what a marketplace matches on.

The row below that closes almost everything costs a whole machine, and a separate update cycle, for every store you run.

A profile is a folder of browsing data plus a description of a device, and both belong to that one store. Launching two profiles opens two browsers that share nothing.

Two of the steps below are checks rather than settings. They exist so that you find out something is wrong before a marketplace does.

1. 1

   Name the profile after the store

   Etsy, home goods, UK tells you more in a list of fifty than Etsy 3 does.

2. 2

   Pick E-commerce as the scenario

   The Scenario field. This is the moment the ceilings, the opening address and the tracker list are attached.

3. 3

   Pick the fingerprint template

   Pick the machine that seller would plausibly work from, then leave it alone forever.

4. 4

   Attach a proxy and press Test proxy

   The check goes out through the path the launch will use, and the country that comes back is saved on the profile.

5. 5

   Launch and read the start page

   It names the exit address, the country and city, the engine and the device the browser was handed.

The scenario is chosen once and decides six things at once.

• Opening address

  https://www.amazon.com, unless the profile's own Opening address field is filled in.

• Injected scripts

  Fingerprint and stealth. Tracker and link work happens at the network layer instead.

• Tracker list

  31 domains cancelled at the request level: analytics, session recorders, crash reporters.

• Link cleaning

  On. 40 tracking parameters come off the address, among them utm_source, fbclid, gclid and _ga.

• Daily page ceiling

  120 at full pace, reached on day seven.

• Fingerprint template

  Not forced. One of five: macOS, Windows, Linux, Android phone, Android tablet.

The seven platforms below are the names the defaults were chosen against. They are names, not connections: nothing here reads your orders or publishes a listing.

A new profile does not get the full ceiling on day one. Seven fixed fractions, 0.2, 0.35, 0.5, 0.65, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0, apply to the page count and to every row of the Safe daily ceiling section.

Warming up also means giving the profile something to remember. When you run it, the Cookie robot browses ordinary public sites from its pool in that profile, in its own order per profile, and none of them asks for a login.

• New listings

  Day one to full pace

  2 → 10

• Listing edits

  Day one to full pace

  8 → 40

• Buyer replies

  Day one to full pace

  6 → 30

• Review requests

  Day one to full pace

  8 → 40

• Account switches

  Day one to full pace

  1 → 2

Your accounts already live in a table somewhere. Column names are matched by meaning rather than letter by letter, so Name, Название and profile name all reach the same field.

The import runs in two steps on purpose. The mapping, the unrecognised columns and the first five profiles are shown before anything is created.

The counter counts top-level navigations in that profile's windows. Relaunching on the same day does not clear it, and midnight by this computer's clock starts you at zero.

The bar turns amber at 80 percent of today's ceiling and red at 100 percent. Nothing closes, nothing is refused, nothing is reported anywhere.

• Counted

  Pages opened in the profile today, per profile, resetting at midnight by this computer's clock.

• Not counted

  Listings, edits, buyer replies, review requests, account switches.

• Why not

  A browser cannot tell a page where you published a listing from a page where you read one.

• Where the numbers come from

  Numbers we set ourselves, raised as the profile ages. Our recommendation, not a published platform rule.