CookieRobot is a feature of Multilogin that automatically populates a browser fingerprint profile with relevant cookie history and activity.
Using CookieRobot will increase your success rates on whichever web platform you are using by not allowing the web platform to detect that your browser fingerprint profile is brand new.
Why Cookies Matter
Every time you visit a website, there are two major ways that the website can identify who you are.
Your browser fingerprint
Through canvas fingerprinting technology and other methods, any website that you visit can know lots of information about you, such as: your browser, device operating system, language, time zone, and many other settings.
When combined, all of this identifying information is used to create a browser “fingerprint”, which allows websites to easily track your device, regardless of your IP address.
By using Multilogin, you may avoid browser fingerprint detection by creating unique browser fingerprint profiles. Learn more on our features page.
Your cookie browsing history
In addition to your browser fingerprint, major web platforms have another tracking instrument at their disposal: your cookie browsing history. Through the use of cookies, web platforms can track your browsing history almost anywhere on the internet.
For example, if a third-party website installs a widget such as or Google Analytics or the Facebook Like button, the web platform that owns the widget will know when you visited the third-party website and how long you stayed there for.
Since a very large number of third-party websites use widgets provided by web platforms, web platforms may essentially know your entire browsing history via cookies, regardless of if you have signed up to or even visited the web platform before.
If the web platform you are using notices that your browser fingerprint profile has a completely blank browsing history, that fact is a potential red flag that may affect your success rates.
CookieRobot solves this problem by automatically visiting websites that contain a tracking widget from the web platform you are using, then staying on each website for a certain amount of time.
This process makes your browser fingerprint profile look natural in terms of cookie browsing history and helps to reduce the likelihood of account suspension or termination.
Facebook Admits to Analyzing Cookie History for Security
Most savvy internet users know that web platforms look at browsing history in order to serve more targeted advertisements. However, we now have proof your browsing history is also potentially used for security decisions.
After the presidential election of 2016, the United States Senate requested information from Facebook in regards to many of their security practices. For our purposes, we will focus on two responses provided for a single question.
The document asks a question related to if Facebook creates “shadow profiles”. In essence, does Facebook track internet users who do not have a Facebook account?
Here is what Facebook responded with:
“When people visit apps or websites that feature our technology -- like the Facebook like or comment button -- our servers automatically log [their activity]...
These logs are critical to protecting the security of Facebook and detecting or preventing fake account access. For example, if a browser has visited hundreds of websites in the last five minutes, that’s a sign the device might be a bot, which would be an important signal of a potentially inauthentic account if that browser then attempted to register for an account.”
From these answers, we can deduce two things.