What does TrickyBird hide?

TrickyBird keeps the site’s address out of your URL bar and off the page you see, and it hides your IP from the site you open. Our own gateway handles the connection, and we keep a shortened IP for at most 48 hours.

We keep minimal, short-lived logs, and we do not claim to keep none. The edge log records a shortened form of your IP address, the hostname of the site you connected to, and basic response details, kept for at most 48 hours. The Security page lists exactly what is stored and for how long, so you can check the numbers against what runs.

Will these checks work on my school or work laptop?

Yes. Everything here runs in the browser you already have. There is nothing to install and no account to create, so the same checks work on a managed Chromebook or a locked-down work laptop, where downloading an app is not an option.

Proof, not a promise

Web proxy leak test

Most privacy tools ask you to trust a badge. This one asks you to check. When you open a site through TrickyBird, the site’s address stays out of the URL bar and off the page you see. You do not have to take our word for it. Run the 3 checks below in your own tab and look for the site’s name. It is not there.

The address here is TrickyBird’s own, never the address of the site you opened

The site loads in the tab, but its address stays out of your URL bar and off the page you see.

Run the leak test in 3 steps

Look at the address bar and search it for the name of the site you just opened. It is not there. What you see is TrickyBird’s own address followed by an encoded path.
Right-click the page and choose View Source, then press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) and search for the site’s name. You get zero matches.
Open DevTools (F12), switch to the Network tab, click any request, and read its Referer and Origin headers. Neither one names the site you are viewing. Both point at TrickyBird’s own address.

One honest note

Running a check here opens a real, short-lived TrickyBird session, and it is logged like any other: a shortened IP address, kept for at most 48 hours. The claim on this page is deliberately narrow. The site you open does not appear in the URL bar, on the page, or in the Referer and Origin headers your browser sends. TrickyBird’s own address does appear, and that is expected. This is about hiding which site you visit.

Questions

What does TrickyBird hide?: TrickyBird keeps the site’s address out of your URL bar and off the page you see, and it hides your IP from the site you open. Our own gateway handles the connection, and we keep a shortened IP for at most 48 hours.
So do you keep logs?: We keep minimal, short-lived logs, and we do not claim to keep none. The edge log records a shortened form of your IP address, the hostname of the site you connected to, and basic response details, kept for at most 48 hours. The Security page lists exactly what is stored and for how long, so you can check the numbers against what runs.
Will these checks work on my school or work laptop?: Yes. Everything here runs in the browser you already have. There is nothing to install and no account to create, so the same checks work on a managed Chromebook or a locked-down work laptop, where downloading an app is not an option.