2 pointsby Ogbon8 hours ago1 comment
  • Ogbon8 hours ago
    I built VEIL, a Chrome extension that automatically classifies the site you're on and applies context-appropriate privacy protection.

    The problem I was solving: most tracker blockers apply identical rules everywhere. But a banking site warrants much stricter protection than a social media site — different threats, different tradeoffs between privacy and functionality.

    VEIL detects four contexts: - Financial — maximum blocking, WebRTC leak protection, strict fingerprint masking - Shopping — affiliate tracker blocking, price manipulation protection - Social — balanced blocking that keeps sites functional - Work — corporate tracker blocking, identity compartmentalisation

    No configuration needed. Works from install.

    Six months in, growing purely organically at ~234% week-on-week, 52 installs, zero uninstalls three periods running.

    Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/veil-virtual-enhanc...

    Happy to discuss the technical approach to context detection or any aspect of the implementation.