#!/bin/bash # Fully Automated Header Modifier for Chrome (Ubuntu x86) # Creates a custom Chrome extension to modify User-Agent and Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform # No manual steps required! set -e PROFILE_DIR="$HOME/.config/google-chrome-headers" EXTENSION_DIR="$PROFILE_DIR/HeaderModifier" echo "================================================" echo "Automated Header Modifier Setup for Chrome" echo "================================================" echo "" # Install Google Chrome if not present echo "[1/3] Checking for Google Chrome..." if ! command -v google-chrome &> /dev/null; then echo "Installing Google Chrome..." wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable echo "✓ Chrome installed" else echo "✓ Chrome already installed" fi # Create extension directory echo "" echo "[2/3] Creating header modifier extension..." rm -rf "$EXTENSION_DIR" mkdir -p "$EXTENSION_DIR" # Create manifest.json cat > "$EXTENSION_DIR/manifest.json" << 'EOF' { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Header Modifier", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "Automatically modifies User-Agent and Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform headers", "permissions": [ "declarativeNetRequest" ], "host_permissions": [ "" ], "declarative_net_request": { "rule_resources": [{ "id": "ruleset_1", "enabled": true, "path": "rules.json" }] }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" } } EOF # Create rules.json for declarativeNetRequest cat > "$EXTENSION_DIR/rules.json" << 'EOF' [ { "id": 1, "priority": 1, "action": { "type": "modifyHeaders", "requestHeaders": [ { "header": "User-Agent", "operation": "set", "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }, { "header": "Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform", "operation": "set", "value": "\"macOS\"" }, { "header": "Sec-Ch-Ua", "operation": "set", "value": "Not(A:Brand\";v=\"8\", \"Chromium\";v=\"144\", \"Google Chrome\";v=\"144\"" } ] }, "condition": { "urlFilter": "*", "resourceTypes": [ "main_frame", "sub_frame", "stylesheet", "script", "image", "font", "object", "xmlhttprequest", "ping", "csp_report", "media", "websocket", "other" ] } } ] EOF # Create background.js cat > "$EXTENSION_DIR/background.js" << 'EOF' // Background service worker for Header Modifier console.log('Header Modifier extension loaded'); // Listen for extension installation chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => { console.log('Header Modifier installed and active'); console.log('User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'); console.log('Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "macOS"'); }); EOF echo "✓ Extension created at $EXTENSION_DIR" # Create Chrome preferences to suppress popups echo "" echo "[3/4] Configuring Chrome preferences..." mkdir -p "$PROFILE_DIR/Default" cat > "$PROFILE_DIR/Default/Preferences" << 'PREFEOF' { "browser": { "show_home_button": true, "check_default_browser": false }, "profile": { "default_content_setting_values": { "notifications": 2 }, "password_manager_enabled": false, "name": "HeaderModifier" }, "upgrade": { "last_check_status": 0, "last_check_time": "13317768000000000" }, "distribution": { "skip_first_run_ui": true, "show_welcome_page": false, "import_search_engine": false, "import_history": false, "do_not_create_any_shortcuts": true, "do_not_create_desktop_shortcut": true, "do_not_create_quick_launch_shortcut": true, "do_not_create_taskbar_shortcut": true, "do_not_launch_chrome": true, "do_not_register_for_update_launch": true, "make_chrome_default": false, "make_chrome_default_for_user": false, "suppress_first_run_default_browser_prompt": true }, "first_run_tabs": [], "sync_promo": { "show_on_first_run_allowed": false }, "privacy_sandbox": { "m1": { "topics_enabled": false, "fledge_enabled": false }, "notice_displayed": true, "consent_decision_made": true, "topics_consent": { "consent_given": false } } } PREFEOF cat > "$PROFILE_DIR/First Run" << 'EOF' EOF cat > "$PROFILE_DIR/First Run Dev" << 'EOF' EOF echo "✓ Preferences configured" # Create launcher script echo "" echo "[4/4] Creating launcher script..." LAUNCH_SCRIPT="$HOME/launch-chrome-with-headers-hijack.sh" cat > "$LAUNCH_SCRIPT" << EOF #!/bin/bash nohup google-chrome \\ --user-data-dir="$PROFILE_DIR" \\ --load-extension="$EXTENSION_DIR" \\ --disable-extensions-except="$EXTENSION_DIR" \\ --no-first-run \\ --no-default-browser-check \\ --disable-default-apps \\ --disable-popup-blocking \\ --disable-translate \\ --disable-sync \\ --no-service-autorun \\ --simulate-outdated-no-au='Tue, 31 Dec 2099 23:59:59 GMT' \\ --disable-component-update \\ "\$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 & EOF chmod +x "$LAUNCH_SCRIPT" # Build a new chrome shortcut and replace the one on dock echo "Updating the shortcut on Dock" mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ sed -i "s|/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable|$LAUNCH_SCRIPT|g" ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications NEW_DESKTOP_FILE="$HOME/.local/share/applications/chrome-custom.desktop" cat > "$NEW_DESKTOP_FILE" << EOF [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Chrome (Header Mod) Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --user-data-dir="$PROFILE_DIR" --load-extension="$EXTENSION_DIR" --no-first-run %U Terminal=false Icon=google-chrome Type=Application Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml; StartupWMClass=google-chrome EOF chmod +x "$NEW_DESKTOP_FILE" CURRENT_FAVORITES=$(gsettings get org.gnome.shell favorite-apps) if [[ $CURRENT_FAVORITES != *"'chrome-custom.desktop'"* ]]; then NEW_FAVORITES=$(echo $CURRENT_FAVORITES | sed "s/'google-chrome.desktop'//g" | sed "s/\[/['chrome-custom.desktop', /g" | sed "s/, ,/, /g" | sed "s/, \]/]/g") gsettings set org.gnome.shell favorite-apps "$NEW_FAVORITES" echo "✓ Updated" else echo "✓ Already the newest version" fi sleep 5