Clearcote is an open-source, de-Googled Chromium browser with engine-level fingerprint controls, designed as a drop-in for Playwright and Puppeteer automation tools. It ensures consistent, plausible identities for web scraping and testing without compromising privacy or performance.
Key benefits include:
- Engine-level identity controls: Compiled into the binary (not brittle script injection), ensuring native behavior and avoiding self-revealing artifacts.
- Coherent per-site identity: Consistent signals across sites, inspired by Brave’s farbling model for stable, believable fingerprints.
- Drop-in automation support: Native Playwright & Puppeteer compatibility with the same APIs, enabling seamless migration from existing workflows.
- De-Googled base: Removes Google services, telemetry, and integration, prioritizing privacy by default.
- Open-source & reproducible: Free (BSD-3 licensed), checksummed, and signed builds with every change as a readable patch.
Perfect for developers, testers, and automation engineers who need stealthy, privacy-focused browser automation without relying on closed-source tools.
