Data Watchdog
See what every site can access, and control it per site
Details
- External ID
- 1250741
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Data Watchdog
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Privacy, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Data Watchdog shows you exactly what every website tries to access: camera, microphone, location, clipboard, screen sharing, cookies, trackers, and fingerprinting attempts. Use 22 per site controls, or a Permissive, Balanced, or Strict preset. Protections apply before page scripts execute, so nothing sneaks through first. No account, no server, no analytics or telemetry. Bulk edit and import/export make it easy to manage settings across many sites.
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser permission and data access manager for web users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The dashboard and basic permission toggles are straightforward, but intercepting browser APIs reliably before any target page script executes requires specialized browser extension architecture.
What it would actually take: The core component is a Manifest V3 browser extension utilizing dynamic declarativeNetRequest rules and content scripts injected at `document_start` into the `MAIN` world. To block fingerprinting and hardware access before third-party scripts run, it must monkey-patch prototype objects (`navigator.mediaDevices`, `navigator.clipboard`, `CanvasRenderingContext2D`) without breaking legit site functionality. This requires deep browser security and JavaScript prototype pollution/isolation expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 39 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 40 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- WebKeeper · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Watcher · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Klar · ph · 2026-09-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- VisitVerity · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- WebAuditOS · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Intruder Guard · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Finetooth · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- TrackingCoder · ph · 2026-09-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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