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Traceveil 1.4: Sometimes looking normal makes you easier to find
How much browser-native fingerprint protection can we bring to people who want to keep using Chrome?
Traceveil 1.4 is now the stable release line. It’s open source, same as always.
Open source is more useful when “trust me” can be replaced with “here is how to prove me wrong.”
Sometimes looking normal is what gets you noticed. Sometimes saying nothing at all is the most ordinary thing a browser can do.
Traceveil 1.3.2 is complete. The next step is a browser.
Traceveil says: You should not identify me merely because my browser visited your website. Roamer ID says: I choose to prove that this identity, signature, document, or action belongs to me. These ideas are not in conflict. They need each other. An internet where nobody can prove anything would not create freedom. It would create fraud, impersonation, and confusion. An internet where everybody must reveal everything would not create trust. It would create surveillance. The better system lies between them. Do not identify me without my permission. Allow me to prove what I choose when I decide it is necessary. Reveal no more than the situation requires. This is the way.
Impossible Will Take a Little More Time
When I am online, I often feel an underlying anger and a quiet sense of dissolution of the self. So much of what represents me is owned, interpreted, monetized, and reused by companies I do not control. My accounts, my reputation, my browsing patterns, my profiles, my signals, my preferences, my history — all of it gets pulled into an endless monetization loop.
The Internet needs an Identity Layer that belongs to people
Your identity is now fragmented, rented back to you, and constantly observed. Trust online is increasingly mediated by centralized companies. Privacy is treated as a settings page. Reputation is locked inside apps. Pseudonymity is treated with suspicion, even when it is necessary for safety, creativity, or freedom. And as AI-generated content floods the web, the pressure is growing to solve authenticity with even more surveillance.
That is the wrong direction.