I made a free log anonymizer in the browser
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HN · launched Nov 29, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: privacy-focused browsers and web tools · 93 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 93 launches in privacy-focused browsers and web tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a client-side web utility applying regular expressions in JavaScript to detect and mask common PII patterns (IPs, emails, API keys) from raw log text.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missed SSID and 'password' keyword in mocked logs, Unclear if using BERT or similar entity detection vs regex
Feature requests: Add more fields/keywords for sanitization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 377 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #299 of 378 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.
- claude-my-privacy · github · 2026-10-06 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SecretGate · hn · 2026-10-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- privacy-probe · github · 2026-11-06 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Ghostty-Web · hn · 2025-11-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- aero-browser · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Show HN : Dally · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I built an API for agents visiting my personal website · hn · 2026-05-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Anonymous Browsing · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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