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24 alternatives to I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you

I know we are very wary of AI slop but disclaimer: AI was used. I don't think that it is slop though and it was mostly used for formatting.

This tool blocks tracking on websites, helping users maintain privacy while browsing. It's designed for anyone concerned about their online activity being monitored. The creator developed it using AI assistance… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill). There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win. But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Detect AI-generated comments and posts on Reddit

    May 2026 · slopgoggles.ticekralt.com · its alternatives →

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    Track AI agent traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini

    2025 · writesonic.com · its alternatives →

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    Detectly▲112

    Sniff out AI slop

    2025 · detectly.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Free AI website blocker for Chrome that stops distractions in real-time. 100% private on-device processing. Block the right sites at the right time.

    Nov 2025 · tasksentry.app · its alternatives →

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    Get a clear plan to improve your website and prevent AI slop

    Sep 2026 · polishory.design · its alternatives →

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    Trails▲81

    Hey all, Justin here. I previously built Phind, the AI search engine for developers. One of the biggest problems we had there was figuring out what went wrong with bad searches. We had tons of searches per day, but less than 1% of users gave any explicit feedback. So we were either manually digging through searches or making general system improvements and hoping they helped. This problem gets harder with agents. Traces are longer and more complex. It takes more effort to review them, so I'm building a tool that lets you analyze LLM outputs directly to help developers of LLM apps and agents…

    Jan 2026 · trails-red.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet. For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway). For…

    May 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hide labeled AI content without breaking the web

    Jun 2026 · mt211211.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Track the bots and AI agents crawling your website

    May 2026 · knownagents.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Kenny, I’ve been building aislop. I starting working on this after using Claude Code, codex and opencode several times and noticing some slops. They aren’t syntax and passes most tests, they are patterns like empty catch blocks, useless comments, duplicated helpers, dead code and many more. So I built a tool to scan and check for these patterns and wired it into hooks so after each tool call, the agent checks for the slops. You can try it out with npx aislop scan. It’s all local and no code is transferred. Thank you.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    One thing that had been bothering me about my websites—including this blog, but especially when launching https://www.endbasic.dev/ just a few months ago—was this: uBlock showing a warning that it blocked a tracker on the EndBASIC site. A tracking warning. uBlock complained that my prope

    2022 · jmmv.dev · its alternatives →

  14. 14TY

    A computational surveillance system that presents a website

    2016 · tracingyou.bengrosser.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Lately Github PRs have been drowning in a flood of AI slop. I’ve been seeing it myself, and I’m not the only one: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2011819428061855915 I think it’s great that folks are using AI tools to code faster and better, but too many folks are abusing them to make low-quality contributions to public repos. This takes a lot of reviewers’ mindshare. IMO there needs to be a mechanism to flag low-effort PRs with AI slop, so you can just skip reading them. So I built one: https://haystackeditor.com/slop-detector It’s a simple AI…

    Jan 2026 · haystackeditor.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built CountermarkAI, a lightweight anti-scraping & bot-detection tool for content creators and website owners. It’s designed to help protect your work from unauthorized scraping and AI training, that repurposed your work without permission. How It Works: Use Hashtag – Creators add a unique hashtag to their content as a declaration of ownership. Protect Website – For those running your own sites, simply add a small snippet to your . The protect.js script works asynchronously by sending metadata from every page load back to our servers, logging requests, and flagging known AI-training…

    2025 · countermarkai.com · its alternatives →

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    Crowd-powered AI slop filter for Reddit ( and soon others )

    Apr 2026 · slopometer.ai · its alternatives →

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    After months of using Google Analytics I realized only about 50% of people accepted my cookie-popup. I had months of incorrect data for my website. I started looking for alternatives and eventually found Plausible, which is great (and open-source). Problem is, I didn't feel like paying 9$ a month to see the amount of visitors on a website i didn't even earn anything on, it was just a hobby project. Eventually I started making my own web analytics. Which actually isn't that hard. It took me about a month of working on my spare time every now and then. Being GDPR compliant basically means to…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    2019 · analytics-bypassing-adblockers.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Right-click any post to see if it's AI-generated

    Jul 2026 · slopradar.io · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been building a crowd-sourced AI detection benchmark. Two responses to the same prompt — one from a real human (pre-2022, provably pre prevalence of AI slop on the internet), one generated by AI. You pick the slop. Three wrong and you’re out. The dataset: 16K human posts from Reddit, Hacker News, and Yelp, each paired with AI generations from 6 models across two providers (Anthropic and OpenAI) at three capability tiers. Same prompt, length-matched, no adversarial coaching — just the model’s natural voice with platform context. Every vote is logged with model, tier, source, response…

    Mar 2026 · slop-or-not.space · its alternatives →

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    We have created a website tracker called Thieves. Thieves is a personal AI agent that periodically checks websites for your set conditions in natural human language. Once your condition is met you receive an email. Websites can be checked every 1 hour or every 24 hours. You can invite anyone else to receive your email alerts as well. Examples -"Notify me when the price of this product drops below $50." -"Email me if a new blog post or news article is published with the keyword 'AI'." -"Let me know when this restaurant's online menu adds a 'vegan' section." -“Notify me if a new version number…

    2025 · negativestarinnovators.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, AI agents are all the buzz right now, but how many of them are accessing your website today? That's what we built AgentShield to answer. Most of our users didn't know they had agent traffic until seeing them in our dashboard. You can see traffic broken down by humans, bots, and AI agents. Installation can be as simple as a JS pixel, and it's free. We're currently building out the paid component that will let you block specific agents or types of traffic. Feedback welcome: What else would you want to know about AI agents visiting your site?

    2025 · kya.vouched.id · its alternatives →

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    Identify and kill the LinkedIn AI Slop. Local & OpenSource

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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