Have you ever encountered the annoying situation that after you browse a kind of product online, then you receive so much advertising of related products in the following days. Or receive several promotional emails after you buy a product online. You might be curious about how they could know what I browsed or what I bought? Here, it’s necessary for you to know the phrase – digital fingerprint and learn how to get rid of these annoying things.


What is Digital Fingerprints

A digital fingerprint is a unique digital identifier. A remote site or service gathers little bits of information about a user's machine, and puts those pieces together to form a set of data that identifies our browser setup and device as unique. There are two main forms:

• Browser fingerprinting: information is delivered through the browser when a user visits remote sites
  Device fingerprinting: information is delivered through apps a user has installed on their device

Once our browser and/or device is analysed, it’s difficult or even impossible to get rid of it. Internet users will be identified and tracked, even when they take evasive measures against cookies. These identifiers mainly relate to our browser and device, but can be used to pry into our personal data and internet browsing habits. That’s the reason for the situation that I mentioned at the beginning.


What’s the differences between Digital Fingerprints and cookies

Digital fingerprints are not the same thing as  cookies, however they serve a similar purpose to cookies.

Cookies or HTTP cookies are stored in the web browser itself and were initially designed to store information about the content and state of websites for retrieval.

Cookies can be either first or third-party. First-party cookies are downloaded to your browser from the site itself, e.g. to save your login details for when you next log into the site – seems reasonable enough.

But third-party cookies are downloaded to your browser from many other sites or ‘parties’. Advertisers, retargeting, analytics and tracking services use third-party cookies to track additional off-site behaviours. A website can use a variety of different third-party tracking cookies that collect your information. That information collected by cookies includes your browsing habits, device information and location.

Cookies are pretty easy to control on the user side. We have control of them and can shut them down easily if we wish. However, digital fingerprints are a much more tough nut to crack. There are four features of digital fingerprints:

• Data fingerprinting helps target ads and services without cookies
  More reliable for cross-device tracking
  Circuments typical security tools like adblockers
  Not controlled by the end-user, tough to switch off

As we can see, digital fingerprints were developed largely as a more intensive, robust alternative to cookies. Fingerprinting creates a new persistent identifier that is out of our control, we can’t see it, we can’t shut it down or we can’t kick it out of our device. It uses your browser or device characteristics against you, since the identifier is a summary of all the characteristics of your browser or device.

Fingerprinting is done extensively by tracking companies, who use this information to target users with ads or sell that information to data brokers. Digital advertising is a business worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Retargeting, or recognizing a return visitor and marketing materials based on their previous browsing, is a powerful way for marketers to increase click-through rates and generate revenue.

In short, fingerprinting exists to circumvent the normal controls users have that enable them to control their own browsers. In order to take control of our browsers and devices back, we have to use special tools that resist fingerprinting.


In the next article, I will give a brief introduction of how to protect yourself from digital fingerprints. Stay tuned!

CPA marketing is belong to affiliate marketing, also called Cost Per Action, which means offering a commission to the affiliate when a specific action is completed. The CPA market increases sharply as hundreds of marketers flood in. At the same time, social media and contextual ad network moderation is getting increasingly tougher as well. All these platforms have one obstacle in common: creating multiple accounts from a single device is forbidden.

So, what are you supposed to do to bypass the restrictions? Proxy servers are essential tools to protect your accounts and improve your work efficiency.


What is Proxy server

A proxy server is an application or appliance that acts as a gateway between you and the web. Each computer is assigned with a unique IP address that contains your geolocation and internet provider data, while a proxy lets you go online under a different address.

There are several types of proxy servers, such as:

Public (or free) proxies;
Shared proxies: used by multiple users at the same time;
Dedicated proxies: used by a single user or device

Proxy servers can also be divided into the following categories:

Datacenter proxies: networks based on optical communication lines;
Residential proxies: IP addresses attached to real devices

Pay attention! You can’t use datacenter proxies for affiliate marketing purposes, because any site will easily detect where the user is coming from at a server level. A regular user will never get their IP address from a data center server. Instead, mobile proxies of residential proxies are a go-to for any affiliate because they allow you to go online without having a carrier and can help you considerably increase your account lifetime.


What can we do with it?

Keeping your account safe. If you are managing multi-account and launch your ads from these accounts, you are very likely to be using anti-detect browsers to cover your footprint. Anti-detect browser like AdsPower allows you to utilize proxies, create fake computer’ s fingerprint to prevent websites from reading the real one.

Bypassing restrictions and bans. You can easily get blocked when creating multiple accounts or promoting products or services without paying the platforms. According to rough estimation, at least 10 active accounts are needed to launch your ads and get substantial traffic at Facebook. Once your accounts are detected something suspicious, all accounts registered from the same IP address will be banned. And these accounts hardly get back. Proxy servers is just like a mask of your true IP address allowing you to avoid that.

Bypassing anti-fraud systems. We all hope that our online stores and websites could get more and more traffic. In order to achieve that goal, large amount of advertisement is necessary. If you drive huge traffic volumes from Facebook or Google Ads or other platforms, then you absolutely need to use a proxy. The thing is that once some of your accounts are blocked, the number of bans will go up exponentially. To prevent this from happening, you will need to register each account from a separate IP address.


Where can we get proxies?

You should be aware that quality proxies don’ t come free of charge. At the same time, most public proxies have already been banned by social networks and a number of other platforms. A clever business will not let accounts banned so easily or buy new accounts again and again, which can exhaust ad budget.

To pick up a proxy the right way, you will need to account for your turnover and the platform you are running your ads on. You will also need to pay attention to what kind of device your proxy IP address is attached to. Just take AdsPower as an example, there are 7 common proxies you can pick up. Some IP addresses support only one or two specific proxies. If there is no limitation, then think about elements mentioned above.




A great tool could help you get twice the result with half the effort. Choose the right proxy, boost the efficiency and get to the peak.