Use case
Privacy-preserving research
Research into tracking and consent has an awkward property: the researcher’s own browsing changes what is observed. Separating the two is a methodological requirement, not a preference.
What the work looks like
A researcher, journalist, or compliance reviewer examines what a site collects, which third parties it contacts, how a consent banner behaves when refused, and whether a stated policy matches observable behaviour. The finding has to be repeatable by someone else, and it must not expose the person who made it.
Why an ordinary browser struggles
A personal profile carries identifiers that make the researcher part of the measurement. Clearing state between observations destroys the setup and still leaves cached and device-level signals behind. Running several studies in one browser lets one study contaminate another. Extensions installed for convenience alter the very behaviour under study.
How Isoline helps
Make a study environment reproducible, disposable, and separate from the person running it.
- A clean, described profile per study, with cookies, storage, cache, and extensions scoped to it.
- Profiles that can be restored to a known state so an observation can be repeated.
- Browser sessions run locally. The service controls workspace membership and access to synchronized profile contents, and is trusted with those contents. Sharing uses TLS and account permissions, not end-to-end encryption.
- No claim of undetectability, so a method can state plainly what it does and does not conceal.
Set up your workflow
- Create a clearly named profile for each account or task and group it by client, brand, or project.
- Attach the right proxy and confirm the profile settings before you begin.
- Give teammates only the access they need and close and save profiles before a handover.
The authorized-use boundary here
This is observation of publicly reachable behaviour, or of systems you are authorized to examine. It does not extend to accessing accounts or data without authorization, or to using a research framing to justify unauthorized testing.