The hard part of a web proxy isn't the proxying. It's that every page keeps trying to tell you where

https://reddit.com/link/1w1zew9/video/vshtuc7l8emh1/player I built one. It's called TrickyBird, it runs in a browser tab, and the fetch-and-return part was never the hard bit; the page fighting you is. The usual web proxy hands you proxy.com/?url=https://example.com and calls it a day. I wanted the target origin gone from the URL entirely, which sounded like a weekend project and was not. Where the hostname actually is, precisely, because this is a claim people should check instead of believ