Show HN: Donut Browser, the most private anti-detect browser
3 points - today at 7:24 PM
Hi everyone!
About 2 years ago, I began to work on Donut Browser as a tool to manage browser profiles, which over time has evolved into a proper anti-detect browser.
Anti-detect browsers let you create browser profiles that look like as if you have a completely different computer. I believe Donut is the most private anti-detect browser because:
- It has no telemetry and doesn't track your browsing activity
- It spoofs your browser identity in a way that looks like a real device for every profile
- It notifies you when a website takes a snapshot of your browser identity
- It is built on top of Chromium and lets you block ads and trackers at the DNS level without relying on Manifest V2
- It lets you create unlimited profiles (the first anti-detect browser to do that)
- It supports Linux, which not all anti-detect browsers do!
I use Donut as my main browser and the only other browser I have installed is Tor. If you are into privacy, it offers a lot better experience than Firefox containers or writing your own scripts to manage profiles!
If anyone is going to try it, would love to hear any feedback!
SourceBorisMelnik
today at 7:40 PM
nice! maybe some tooltips over some of the paid features like cloud profile backups, im sure I know what that means but maybe not "cookie bot hours"
either way really cool
andrewzeno
today at 7:47 PM
Thank you! Cloud backups means you can sync the profiles to the cloud. Cookie bot hours mean that your profile will get launched in the cloud and a bot will go onto different websites to build your browser cookies, like opening a website that uses Google Tag Manager on schedule. Will think about the wording in the tooltips, thanks!