I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you
Details
- External ID
- 48769064
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 31
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7885304659498208
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I know we are very wary of AI slop but disclaimer: AI was used. I don't think that it is slop though and it was mostly used for formatting.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- prevent websites from tracking you
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Browser extensions that block tracking scripts, sanitize URL parameters, or clear cookies rely on standard web extension APIs and predefined rule lists, which LLMs generate easily.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, uBlock Origin
Concerns raised: Maintenance concerns - similar tools haven't been maintained for years, Duplicates existing solutions already available, Limited functionality compared to established alternatives like uBlock
Feature requests: Feed false/garbage data to trackers instead of blocking them, Use LLMs to generate infinite garbage data at scale to devalue tracking datasets
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 246 days after the earliest competitor.
- AI Slop Detector · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Isitslop.xyz, a free AI-writing detector built on latest research · hn · 2026-06-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Slop or not · hn · 2026-03-12 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- How to Kill the Dead Internet · hn · 2026-05-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I instructed AI to create tool to clean AI-generated text: undsh.com · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Flag AI Slop in PRs · hn · 2026-01-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I built a tool to auto-accept AI slop and bigtech devs loves it · hn · 2026-05-26 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Scan any website for AI design patterns · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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