Acceptable use

Where a platform asks for one account per person, the answer about a second one is no. A separate browser does not change that, and we do not sell a way around a rule that is written down.

Rules differ by platform and are rewritten often, so the table points at the shape of each rule rather than at a clause. The platform's own terms are the text that counts.

Separation happens on your machine and nowhere else. Each profile gets a folder of its own, a device worked out from its own number and an exit address of its own.

• A session per profile

  Cookies, storage and saved logins stay inside one profile and are shared with nothing.

• A device per profile

  The values a site reads are derived from the profile's own identifier, so a copy of a profile is not a copy of a machine.

• An address per profile

  A proxy is set per profile, so two accounts do not leave through one address.

• Extensions per profile

  Add-ons are switched on per profile, because one identical set across accounts is a link of its own.

A flow is a list of steps you add by hand from a form. There is no step for a captcha, no image recognition and no machine learning step, so a flow stops where a site asks a human question.

Bulk actions work on profiles rather than on platform accounts. A profile is a browser you made, and no feature here registers an account or passes a verification in your place.

These rules are part of the Terms of Service. They sit on top of the rules of each platform, not in place of them.

• Break the law

  Of your country or of the operator's country.

• Take money or goods by deceit

  Fraud, phishing, fake purchases, laundering money.

• Pass yourself off as someone else

  Or use another person's name, documents or face to get through an identity check.

• Get into what is not yours

  Accounts, systems or data you have no right to.

• Collect or track other people's personal data

  Whatever the site you collect it from.

• Send messages in bulk

  To people who did not ask for them.

• Spread malicious code

  Through a profile, a flow or an extension.

• Resell access

  Or rent out access to your account or workspace.

• Come back after a ban

  Open a new account after we closed yours.

Opening a new account to escape a decision made about the old one is named in several platforms' terms as evasion. The product does not bring back a suspended account, and a fresh profile is not a fresh person.

A link that already exists cannot be undone either. Two accounts once opened in one profile stay connected afterwards, whatever you separate later.

Everything on this list sits on the platform's side of the wire. No setting anywhere in the app touches any of it, and this is where accounts are actually tied to each other.

• Payment and payout details

  The strongest link there is. A card is an identity whatever profile it sits in.

• Phone numbers

  One number verifying ten accounts links those ten on the platform's own side.

• Behaviour

  The same actions at the same hours, and the same message text in twenty inboxes.

• Account age and standing

  Both belong to the platform rather than to your computer.

• What you publish

  The same photos and the same links across accounts connect them with no technical signal.

Each profile carries a recommended number of pages for its kind of work, and the app counts the pages you open in it. The bar under the count turns amber as the count nears the figure and red at the top.

That colour is the whole of it. The figure is guidance, the choice stays with you, and so does the answer for what an account did.

Every claim above names a file, and the files are listed below. What the product does is in the code, and what a platform allows is in its own terms.