Free to try • No sign-up • macOS 14+
Pick a persona and MirrorMask browses as them in its own window. What trackers collect says less about you, you get a say in how algorithms see you, and advertisers get a less useful picture.
Full-featured 7-day trial. No credit card.
Digital self-determination at your fingertips.
How it works
MirrorMask runs its own private browser and browses as a completely different person. Google searches, YouTube videos, Facebook pages, Reddit threads. All as your chosen persona, automatically. Your everyday browser is never touched.
Its own private browser
MirrorMask brings its own browser and never touches your everyday one.
Safe for your accounts
Only searches, visits, clicks, scrolls and videos. Never posts, comments or likes.
Local-first
All data stays local. Anonymous analytics via TelemetryDeck. No personal data, ever.
Why MirrorMask
Whether you want your data to say less about you or your feeds to feel fresher, MirrorMask gives you control.
Advertisers are building a model of your life so they can sell you things and sell that model to others. MirrorMask mixes a persona's interests into your signals, so their picture of you gets less accurate.
Tired of the same recommendations? MirrorMask lets you intentionally train the algorithms. See content from perspectives you choose, not ones chosen for you.
Your algorithm
Every search, video and visit your persona makes shows up on your dashboard as it happens. MirrorMask also checks what Google lists about you, so you can compare before and after.
Personas
Each persona comes with its own searches, YouTube interests, websites, Facebook pages, subreddits and shopping signals.
Daily Automation
Turn on Run automatically and MirrorMask runs up to one session a day while your Mac is awake and the app is open. Its own browser searches, watches YouTube and visits sites as your persona, separate from yours.
Insights
See what Google lists about you before and after your persona starts, and which topics are new since your first scan.
The Proof
We ran a controlled experiment: three fresh Google accounts on isolated US residential proxies. Two browsed with personas. One did nothing. Here's what happened to their ad profiles.
Counted from each account's Google Ad Center page each day: the topics, brands and ads it showed. By day 4 the fisherman account listed Fishing, Orvis and Bass Pro Shops.
Meet the personas
Every persona comes with search queries, YouTube interests, websites, Facebook pages, Reddit subs, and shopping signals. Or create a custom one from scratch.
Bass fishing, fly tying, tackle gear, and strong opinions about boats.
Sourdough starters, chef knives, sous vide everything.
Gadget unboxings, smart home setups, keyboard builds.
Cheap flights, all-inclusive resorts, travel credit cards.
DIY renovations, power tool reviews, bathroom remodels.
Protein reviews, deadlift form checks, marathon plans.
Skincare routines, Sephora hauls, Korean beauty deep dives.
Stock picks, crypto analysis, index fund comparisons.
Baby gear, strollers, sleep tips, and parenting hacks.
Dog food reviews, cat toys, and vet advice.
Describe someone in a sentence and MirrorMask writes the persona (on Macs with Apple Intelligence), or fill in the searches yourself.
Download
Start with a full-featured 7-day trial. No credit card required. Then $39 once to keep going.
macOS 14+ • Apple Silicon & Intel
Download for MacNo sign-up required. No credit card. 7-day free trial, then $39 once.
FAQ
You should be skeptical about anything that touches your browsing data.
Algorithmic self-determination is your ability to decide how algorithms see you, instead of accepting the profile they build from everything you do. It starts with privacy: MirrorMask mixes a persona's browsing into what gets collected, so your data says less about you and is worth less to advertisers. Read the full guide.
Turning off personalized ads limits how ads are targeted, but the profile behind them stays. MirrorMask mixes a persona's searches and visits into what Google and others collect, so the picture they hold of you becomes less accurate over time, for advertisers and for any AI agents that draw on it.
You can retrain it by hand: watch and search for what you want more of, and use Not interested on the rest. MirrorMask does this for you in its own browser window, watching and searching as a persona you choose, so new topics can start showing up in your home feed.
It's how platforms like Google, YouTube, and Facebook decide what content to show you based on what they think you're interested in. MirrorMask changes the signals those algorithms rely on, so you get to influence what shows up in your feeds instead of leaving it entirely up to them.
MirrorMask runs entirely on your Mac. All browsing data (your baseline profile, browsing history, and persona activity) stays on your machine. The only server communication is license key activation and anonymous usage analytics via TelemetryDeck, a privacy-first analytics tool that collects no personal data. No tracking, no advertising, no data sold.
Nobody can promise how a platform will act, but curating your own signals uses the same actions any person takes: searching, visiting pages, clicking, scrolling and watching videos. MirrorMask never posts, comments, likes or votes, and it runs at most one automatic session a day.
Ad platforms build your profile based on what you search, watch, and visit. MirrorMask does those things as someone else: a Fisherman, an Investor, a Pet Lover. Over time, the algorithms update their model of you to reflect the persona's interests.
These platforms already have years of data about you. MirrorMask adds persona activity on top, so what they've collected says less about the real you over time. The goal isn't to hide from data collection. It's to make what they've collected less useful. Think of paint mixed into water.
Ad blockers reduce future data collection. They can't undo years of behavioral history platforms already hold on you. MirrorMask mixes new interests into the existing profile, so what they've already built becomes less accurate and less useful. The two work well together.
A VPN hides your IP address. It doesn't change what Google, Facebook, or Amazon think you're interested in. They track you by your logged-in account, not your location. Your profile follows you regardless of which network you're on. MirrorMask runs entirely on your Mac. No traffic is routed through our servers.
Your Mac needs to be awake and MirrorMask open. If a day's session hasn't run yet, it runs when your Mac next wakes up.
After 7 days, the app switches to view-only mode. Upgrade to Pro for $39 (one-time, no subscription) to unlock everything permanently. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Its own, set up automatically the first time you run it. Your everyday browser is never touched.
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