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Reshape what the algorithms believe about you.

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.

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A browser that browses as a persona you pick.

Digital self-determination at your fingertips.

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What you actually like
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BROWSING AS SOMEONE ELSE
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10 personas Handcrafted identities
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Native macOS Built with Swift
Local-first Your data stays on your Mac

It browses the web as someone else.

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.

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MirrorMask dashboard with the Fisherman persona mixing into your algorithm

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.

You're being profiled. Start profiling back.

Whether you want your data to say less about you or your feeds to feel fresher, MirrorMask gives you control.

Take back your privacy.

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.

  • Mix new interests into your signals
  • Make your ad profile meaningless to trackers
  • No VPNs, no browser switching, no lifestyle changes
  • Your real interests become one part of a bigger mix

Shape what you see.

Tired of the same recommendations? MirrorMask lets you intentionally train the algorithms. See content from perspectives you choose, not ones chosen for you.

  • Break out of recommendation loops
  • Discover content outside your bubble
  • Curate your feed by curating your profile
  • Turn the algorithm into your personal editor

Your algorithm

Watch your persona mix in.

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.

  • See each search, video and visit as it lands
  • Before-and-after checks of what Google lists about you
  • Works across Google, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon, and Temu
The Fisherman persona's searches mixing into your algorithm on the MirrorMask dashboard

Personas

Choose who the algorithm sees.

Each persona comes with its own searches, YouTube interests, websites, Facebook pages, subreddits and shopping signals.

  • Search queries, YouTube videos, websites per persona
  • Facebook pages, Reddit subreddits, Amazon and Temu shopping
  • Create your own from a short description
Creating a persona from a short description: a kung fu teacher who loves baking cheesecakes

Daily Automation

It runs on its own.

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.

  • Up to one session a day, automatically
  • Runs in its own browser, separate from yours
  • You choose which platforms it uses
MirrorMask settings with Run automatically on and the platforms it uses

Insights

See what changes.

See what Google lists about you before and after your persona starts, and which topics are new since your first scan.

  • Before-and-after profile comparison
  • New topics since your first scan
  • Topics that dropped off the list
Example Example Insights: new topics since the first scan, with fishing topics mixed in

5 days. 3 accounts. The control didn't move.

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.

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Fisherman persona Fitness persona Control (no activity)

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.

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Fisherman: items on Google's ad page
More than doubled in 5 days
21 → 56
Fitness: items on Google's ad page
More than doubled in 5 days
21 → 21
Control: items on Google's ad page
Zero change. Five days.

Ten identities. Or build your own.

Every persona comes with search queries, YouTube interests, websites, Facebook pages, Reddit subs, and shopping signals. Or create a custom one from scratch.

Fisherman

Bass fishing, fly tying, tackle gear, and strong opinions about boats.

FishingOutdoors

Home Chef

Sourdough starters, chef knives, sous vide everything.

CookingRecipes

Tech Enthusiast

Gadget unboxings, smart home setups, keyboard builds.

GadgetsTech

Travel Explorer

Cheap flights, all-inclusive resorts, travel credit cards.

FlightsHotels

Home Improver

DIY renovations, power tool reviews, bathroom remodels.

DIYTools

Fitness Enthusiast

Protein reviews, deadlift form checks, marathon plans.

GymNutrition

Beauty Maven

Skincare routines, Sephora hauls, Korean beauty deep dives.

SkincareMakeup

Investor

Stock picks, crypto analysis, index fund comparisons.

StocksFinance

New Parent

Baby gear, strollers, sleep tips, and parenting hacks.

BabyFamily

Pet Lover

Dog food reviews, cat toys, and vet advice.

PetsCare
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Build Your Own

Describe someone in a sentence and MirrorMask writes the persona (on Macs with Apple Intelligence), or fill in the searches yourself.

CustomYours

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Questions? Good.

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.

They built a profile of you. Time to rewrite it.

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