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How Unweb Was Tested to Prove Nothing Carries Over Between Strangers

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unweb makes one promise above the rest: nothing carries over. Not between two strangers open at once, not from a closed stranger to a new one, not into your everyday browser, and nothing stays on disk once a stranger closes. A promise like that is easy to state and easy to break by accident, so the tests don’t take Unweb’s word for anything.

The self-test runs the real app, on the system’s own web engine, against small web servers on the same machine. One plays a site at 127.0.0.1, another plays a third party at localhost, which counts as a different site. Every request they receive is logged with its cookies, and with any cached ID the browser sends back. Those logs decide each check.

Unweb Launches as a Free Browser Where Every Visit Is a First Visit

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unweb is out, at version 0.3, for Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s a small browser that opens strangers. A stranger has no history, no logins and no cookies, and when you close it, everything it picked up is deleted from your computer.

The idea came from a simple annoyance. Your everyday browser is soaked in you, so you never see a site the way a newcomer does. Private windows help a little, but they share one session with each other and are awkward to run in parallel. You can’t easily put three fresh visitors next to each other and watch what each one gets.

Why the Browser Is Called Unweb

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The web you see isn’t quite the web. It’s the web after a thousand small decisions made about you: the cookies a site found, the account you’re logged in to, what you clicked last month. Every page arrives already fitted to you.

Unweb takes that fitting off. Each window opens strangers, browsers that have never been anywhere, so a site has nothing to go on. What’s left is the web a newcomer gets, which is the web most people meet for the first time.