No. 07 · Class of 2026
PrivacyBench
The OnionFor services to transparency: peels back every layer a website can see and shows it to you first.
Privacy has layers. So does your fingerprint
The plaque
- Stage name
- The Onion
- Instrument
- A halved onion whose layers are the ridges of a fingerprint, plus a magnifying glass.
- Day job
- Shows what any site sees about you: IP and provider, browser, screen, graphics card, how unique your browser is and whether WebRTC leaks your real IP.
- Signature move
- Admitting what a static site cannot test, and sending you to those who can.
- Plays with
- A magnifying glass, a spider from the server room.
- Debut
- October 1, 2026, the first of three debuts that evening
- Inducted
- October 10, 2026
The original
The logo you see on the site, in colour.
- A red onion cut in half: its rings are the ridges of a fingerprint, breaks and forks included.
- The magnifying glass is the website, looking at you up close.
- Under the glass, the same rings, bigger.
On paper
The black-and-white version from the blog comics. Model sheet:
- calm
- delighted
- shocked
- knows too much
Biography
Onions have layers, and so does everything a website learns about you the moment you open it. The onion of PrivacyBench is cut in half to show them: its rings are the ridges of a fingerprint, and a magnifying glass hovers over them, because that is exactly what sites do.
It shows your IP and provider, the browser, the screen, the graphics card, how unique your browser looks, and whether WebRTC leaks your real address past a VPN. Nothing is sent to fof.lol: to learn your public address it asks public IP services and Google’s STUN server, exactly as any website could. A DNS leak cannot be checked by a static site, and the onion says so honestly.
In the comics the onion is the one who knows a bit too much: it smirks, holds a magnifying glass up to the camera, searches the fof.lol server room and finds only a spider. For its induction a vein that ran straight into its left eye was trimmed, so the smirk no longer comes with a scar.
Greatest hits
Where to catch it in the blog comics:
- Our principles: looks at you through a magnifying glass, very close up.
- What we know about you: searches the server room for your data and finds a spider.
- The Hall of Fame is open: reminds everyone that it debuted first that evening.