Virtual machine or anti-detection browser: which one to choose?

Imagine: you’ve already warmed up your profiles—you’ve spent a couple of days surfing the internet, searching for various queries, and acting like a regular user. Now it’s time to register on platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Yandex, or other services where you plan to be active. You’ve successfully completed the setup, sat back, and started calculating the potential profit. But as soon as the numbers start to look impressive, you’re overcome with anxiety: what if it all disappears because of a block? Should you take extra precautions and move your work to a virtual machine?

What is a virtual machine?

A virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a full-fledged computer or software environment that can run applications incompatible with your primary operating system. For the user, it’s almost indistinguishable from working on a real PC—you connect to a remote server and access a different OS or software.

There are two main types of virtual machines:

A process virtual machine (or application virtual machine) runs like a regular application within your OS and exists only for the duration of a specific task. An example is Wine, which allows Linux users to run Windows programs.
A system virtual machine emulates an entire operating system. It’s as if you’re sitting at someone else’s computer, perhaps in another city or even country. Access is via a host server, and it’s similar to using TeamViewer or AnyDesk—except without a human on the other end.

Such system VMs can indeed be used to create multiple accounts or as an additional layer of protection when working with anti-detection browsers like GoLogin. But how effective is this compared to modern solutions?

RDP and VNC vs. Anti-Detect Browser

Among popular remote access tools, the most commonly used are RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and VNC (Virtual Network Computing). Both allow you to control a remote computer, but in different ways:

VNC provides direct access to a physical device: you see its screen and control the mouse and keyboard. It’s cross-platform—it runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Raspberry Pi. However, by default, VNC doesn’t encrypt traffic, which can be a security vulnerability.
RDP, on the other hand, creates a virtual login session, operates primarily within the Windows ecosystem, and transmits data over an encrypted channel. However, older versions of RDP use outdated encryption algorithms.

While both solutions allow changing the IP address and fingerprint of a device, using them for multi-accounting is expensive, complex, and requires technical skills. Managing dozens of such machines is not a task for beginners.

FraudFox vs. Modern Anti-Detection Browsers

Another frequently mentioned tool is FraudFox. It’s marketed as a browser fingerprinting tool and even emulates Windows 7 as a virtual machine. However, in reality, FraudFox is significantly inferior to modern anti-detection browsers:

Windows 7 is no longer supported, making it vulnerable.
FraudFox replaces only basic parameters: User-Agent, language, time zone, screen resolution, and font set.
For most modern security systems (especially on large platforms), this level of concealment is no longer sufficient.

While anti-detection browsers like GoLogin emulate hundreds of device parameters at the browser kernel level, providing much deeper and more reliable profile isolation.

Can I use GoLogin inside a virtual machine?

Yes, you can run GoLogin on a VPS, VDS, via RDP, or VNC—this will add an extra layer of anonymity, especially if you’re concerned about data leakage from your primary device.

But ask yourself: is this really necessary? GoLogin already includes a cloud environment that’s similar in functionality to a virtual machine, but with the added benefit of:

cheaper to operate,
easier to set up,
fully integrated with the browser,
does not require management of third-party servers.

Therefore, in most cases, using a separate virtual machine is redundant. The Anti-Detect Browser itself provides sufficient protection for secure work with multiple accounts.