About

unweb.org is the home of Unweb, a tiny browser where every visit is a first visit.

Your everyday browser is full of you. Cookies from hundreds of sites, logins, stored data, cached files, months of history. Every site you open gets some of that, and shapes what it shows you to fit. You never see the page a newcomer sees.

Unweb opens strangers. A stranger starts with nothing at all, and when you close it, everything it collected is deleted from your computer. You can open several side by side in one window, each with a store of its own, and type one address for all of them. Give one a different language, or send it through a proxy you have so its traffic comes from somewhere else, and compare what each one gets.

It runs on the web engine your system already has (WebView2 on Windows, WKWebView on macOS, WebKitGTK on Linux), so the download is small.

What It Is For

• Seeing a site as a newcomer does. Prices, offers, cookie banners and search results often change for people who have been there before.
• Checking your own site. What a first-time visitor gets, what your pages store on their computer, and whether a change reached everyone.
• Comparing places. Strangers side by side, each through a proxy in another country, with Compare to keep a screenshot of all of them.
• Keeping a visit to yourself. Look something up without it joining the rest of your browsing.

What It Doesn’t Hide

A stranger is a clean browser, not an invisibility cloak. Sites still see your IP address unless you give the stranger a proxy. All strangers on one computer share its screen, fonts and hardware, so a site that fingerprints devices could link them. And on macOS, a stranger whose proxy is down goes direct. The reference lists everything Unweb can’t hide.

Open Source

Unweb is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0. The code, the self-test and its recorded results are on GitHub. Unweb is a SoftDevStudio.com project.