case studies
A Hotel Site Quotes a Returning Visitor More for the Same Room
Picture someone planning a weekend away. They look at a room on Monday, think about it, and come back on Wednesday to book. The price has gone up, and a red label says …
Version 0.3, free and open source
A browser where every visit is your first visit
Every stranger in Unweb starts with no history, no logins and no cookies. Open several side by side, give each a language or a proxy of its own, and see what a newcomer sees. Close them, and everything they collected is deleted.
26 files
Left by stranger A in its own folder: cookies, storage, cache, a service worker. All deleted when it closed, and still gone 10 seconds later
0 traces
Of stranger A found by a stranger open at the same time, or by one opened after A closed
30 checks
In the end-to-end self-test, run with each installer before it is published
Apache 2.0
License for all of the code
From Unweb's self-test on Linux (WebKitGTK 2.52.6), recorded for version 0.3. It also runs on Windows and macOS on every change and before every release. The test logs are on GitHub.
Notes and explainers
case studies
A News Paywall Counts Your Free Articles and a Stranger Starts From Zero
Many news sites give you a few free articles a month, then ask you to subscribe. The count has to live somewhere, and on most sites it lives in your browser: a cookie …
case studies
A Shop Sets Seven Cookies Before Anyone Answers Its Cookie Banner
A cookie banner asks “Can we use cookies?” and most people assume nothing happens until they answer. This case study runs on a made-up outdoor shop, Peak …
use examples
Comparing Prices by Country With Two Proxies Side by Side
Travel sites, software shops and streaming services often show different prices to different countries. They usually decide from your IP address, which is why a …
testing
How Unweb Was Tested to Prove Nothing Carries Over Between Strangers
Unweb makes one promise above the rest: nothing carries over. Not between two strangers open at once, not from a closed stranger to a new one, not into your everyday …
use examples
Saving a Setup to Recheck the Same Page Every Week
Some checks are worth repeating. An SEO consultant looks at how a client’s page ranks in three countries every Monday. A shop owner checks that a new visitor still …
unweb
Unweb Launches as a Free Browser Where Every Visit Is a First Visit
Unweb is out, at version 0.3, for Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s a small browser that opens strangers. A stranger has no history, no logins and no cookies, and when …
explainer
What Your Browser Remembers About You and Why Sites Show You a Different Web
Open a shop you’ve visited before and it often greets you differently. Free shipping instead of a discount. A price that isn’t the one your friend saw. …
unweb
Why the Browser Is Called Unweb
The web you see isn’t quite the web. It’s the web after a thousand small decisions made about you: the cookies a site found, the account you’re logged …
Questions or ideas?
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