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A browser fingerprint that blends in
Users want a browser or extension that reports a common, realistic profile or rotates identifiers, like Tor Browser protections without Tor.
Asks per year
What the askers want
- Would pay0%
- Want it local or private70%
- Object to subscriptions0%
- Want it open source or self-hosted0%
- Want AI to do it0%
Share of the 10 asks that say so, as judged by Jev.
What exists on Show HN
Built, still asked for6 Show HN launches do this job, and 5 more do part of it. People still ask, so the launches are missed, unknown, or not what they want. Ask what they’re missing before you build.
- I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces2026 · 20 pts
- Fortress – Give your agents unlimited access to the web2026 · 10 pts
- ChromiumFish – Open-source fingerprint-hardened Browser for Scraping2026 · 7 pts
- 404 – a localhost proxy that substitutes your device fingerprint2026 · 4 pts
- Konform Browser v140.8.0-105 - Security-focused Firefox fork2026 · 4 pts
- Self-hosted Chromium engine with 256 parallel stealth sessions2026 · 2 pts
Instead of: Tor Browser, Firefox, Chrome
The idea, as matched
A browser or extension that defeats fingerprinting by spoofing a realistic common browser profile or randomizing identifiers per site, like Tor Browser's protections without Tor.
Jev first matched 10 requests to this idea; a second reader kept 10 of 10.
Every ask, newest first
Each line is an AI paraphrase of what the writer wanted. The link goes to their own words on Hacker News.
- Nov 2025Wants a browser that spoofs a complete realistic device profile, with presets like Edge on Windows 11. Read it: a comment in “The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting”
- Jan 2024Wants a Firefox privacy extension that sets a Chrome user agent, standard resolution and blocks canvas fingerprinting. Read it: a comment in “Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up”
- Apr 2023Wants a chameleon browser that rotates fake engine identities for sites and keeps personal data separate. Read it: a comment in “Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing”
- Jun 2021Wants a browser plugin that puts them in a random ad cohort with every click. Read it: a comment in “Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC”
- Jun 2020Wants a Firefox extension using responsive-mode emulation so sites always see a 1920x1080 screen, to resist fingerprinting. Read it: a comment in “Firefox 78”
- Jun 2020Wants a Firefox plugin that subtly alters the user-agent string per new tab to defeat fingerprinting. Read it: a comment in “Show HN: Server-Side Tracking Without Cookies in Go”
- Apr 2020Wants a security-first spin-off of Tor Browser without Tor. Read it: a comment in “A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox”
- May 2016Wants Tor Browser's fingerprinting protections without the Tor network. Read it: a comment in “Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis”
- Aug 2013Asks for a plugin to remove or modify request headers that make a browser unique. Read it: a comment in “Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?”
- Mar 2011Asks for a Firefox add-on that homogenizes the information the browser sends to sites. Read it: a comment in “New net rules set to make cookies crumble”
Building this?
Read ten of the asks above first, because they say what the existing launches miss. If you ship it, post it as a Show HN so the next run of this list finds it.
Ship it like Vercel, on a server you own
This site runs on ShipTiffin. A push to GitHub deploys it, the way it would on Vercel, but the server is a Hetzner box in your own account. Postgres, sign-in, email, jobs and analytics are already on it, every project gets a hard limit, and nothing is billed by usage.
$19 a month per box, plus about $10 for the server at Hetzner. Open source, so you can also run it yourself for free.