- Two Privacy Scientists have just revealed a one-on-one-stroke private web browser
- Psylo offers anti-tracking and anti-fingerprint features that promise to go beyond VPN protection
- Psycho is currently available on iOS and iPados
Two confidentiality researchers have just revealed a “new kind of private web browser” that promises to solve a problem that hits the industry – browser fingerprints.
Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk built Psylos with an innovatively isolated tab system powered by a proxy network. This means that each tab is open in its own “silo” with insulated storage, cookies and even its own IP address.
Psylos’ anti-tracking and anti-fingerprint functions also promise to go far beyond the protection of the best VPN services. The app is currently available for iOS and iPados.
To come where VPNs cannot
Recent research done by Texas A&M University found the first tough proof that many sites use browser fingerprints to track people for online advertising purposes.
Browser -fingerprints are a technique for tracking Internet users across apps and websites. It does this by collecting details about their devices and browsers to create a unique digital fingerprint.
Several users have turned to virtual private networks (VPN) to minimize online monitoring. Although a VPN can mask your real IP address, it cannot do the same for your device model, system time zone, language and other identifiable pieces of metadata. However, all these details can still be enough to reveal the user’s identity.
Bakry and Mysk built this proof-of-concept website to show how your real location can be revealed with details such as the system’s time zone settings even when you are connected to a VPN
“This is a place where Psylo really shines. Not only does each silo get a unique IP address through our proxy network, but it also matches the site and time zone on its associated proxy server,” Bakry and Mysk explains in a blog post.
How psycho works
As mentioned earlier, Psylo works via a system made of web silos or isolated web sessions running within a proxy network without log-MySK Private Proxy Network.
This means that any Psylo tab will be completely adaptable and detached apart, making it even harder to track you across the apps and websites you are visiting.
For example, you can configure a tab to connect to your X account with a Canadian IP while configuring another to Instagram that connects through Germany. Psylo will also automatically be falsified by the browser’s language and time zone accordingly.
Currently, you can choose from 40+ servers that are dotted over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Britain, Japan and the USA.
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Not only that. As MySK explains: “Every Psylo tab has its own fuzzy set of device properties to block fingerprints.”
Psycho also includes more common anti-fingerprint measures, such as canvas randomization, which you may already find in some private web browsers like Brave.
All in all “the goal of any anti-fingerprint system is to make the user’s fingerprints as Fuzzy As possible, it makes it more difficult to exactly trace them, “Bakry and Mysk said.
Psycho also promises a truly private and transparent experience with all the software internally developed and controlled together with a strict policy without log. The system does not require new users to create an account but only claim to track subscription status, free of charge for any identifiable metadata.
How to get psylo
After a successful beta launch in February last year, Psylo officially entered the market on June 17, 2025.
Psylo version 1.0.0 is now available in the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad devices as a monthly or annual subscription, with a free 3-day test that offers full access to all features.
Although it is not yet a permanent commitment, developers are also considering releasing an Android version if iOS counterpart proves to be successful.
Definitely an application worth trying if you want to limit your online data exposure.
