--user-data-dir separates almost everything, and not the network
Separate profile directories give separate cookies, storage, cache and extensions. Chromium's network state is keyed by site, and no flag splits it.
4 min readDivyansh Singh
Profiles
3 posts in the Ward journal on this subject. Each one names the data it rests on, the tool that produced it and the claim it makes, at the bottom of the page.
Chrome 96 moved the cookie database, and half the tooling never noticed
The cookie file moved to Default\Network\Cookies. Code that reads only the old path reports an intact profile as empty, with no error.
3 min readDivyansh Singh
What a fingerprint test site actually reports, and how to read one
A green score is not a result and a red one is not a failure. What to check on a public fingerprint test, in the order that tells you something useful.
5 min readDivyansh Singh
Ward is the desktop application these measurements came out of
Many browser profiles on one PC, each with its own proxy and its own device identity. Free plan, free account, nothing to buy today.