TrickyBird

TrickyBird is a web proxy, not a VPN. You paste a link and it opens that one site in the same tab, rewritten as it loads. Wherever TrickyBird has to carry the address of the site you open, it carries it encoded rather than spelled out, so the address bar shows a TrickyBird address instead of the site's, and it will not always look the same, since sometimes it is only numbers. TrickyBird's own pages are in 9 languages. A 3-step leak test walks you through your own address bar, the page source and the request headers, and names the one value TrickyBird writes the site's name into, and a per-site status page carries only the sites TrickyBird has opened through the proxy and seen render, under a last-checked date. TrickyBird has no account and keeps a small access log for at most 48 hours. The log writes one line for every request the proxy makes on your behalf, so it holds the hostname of each site or service a page loads from, not only the address you typed, together with a shortened form of your IP address and basic response details. Separately, TrickyBird counts requests against your full IP address to stop bulk automated abuse; that count carries no destination and no session, and it expires on its own. An optional Chrome extension routes a single browser tab through the proxy and leaves every other tab alone.