diff --git a/core/modules/privacy/privacy.info.yml b/core/modules/privacy/privacy.info.yml
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+name: Privacy
+description: Provides various privacy enhancements
+core: 8.x
+type: module
diff --git a/core/modules/privacy/privacy.module b/core/modules/privacy/privacy.module
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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Tries to anonymize user data in the request.
+ */
+
+use Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteMatchInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Implements hook_help().
+ */
+function privacy_help($route_name, RouteMatchInterface $route_match) {
+  switch ($route_name) {
+    case 'help.page.privacy':
+      $output = '<h3>' . t('About') . '</h3>';
+      $output .= '<p>' . t('The privacy module removes some user specific information from the request, so modules cannot find something out about the users of the site.') . '</p>';
+
+      return $output;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/modules/privacy/privacy.services.yml b/core/modules/privacy/privacy.services.yml
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+services:
+  http_middleware.privacy:
+    class: \Drupal\privacy\StackMiddleware\PrivacyMiddleware
+    tags:
+      - { name: http_middleware, priority: 150, responder: true }
diff --git a/core/modules/privacy/src/StackMiddleware/PrivacyMiddleware.php b/core/modules/privacy/src/StackMiddleware/PrivacyMiddleware.php
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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\privacy\StackMiddleware;
+
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernelInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Tries to anonymize the incoming request.
+ */
+class PrivacyMiddleware implements HttpKernelInterface {
+
+  /**
+   * The HTTP kernel.
+   *
+   * @var \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernelInterface
+   */
+  protected $httpKernel;
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a new PricayMiddleware instance.
+   *
+   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernelInterface $httpKernel
+   *   The HTTP kernel.
+   */
+  public function __construct(HttpKernelInterface $httpKernel) {
+    $this->httpKernel = $httpKernel;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function handle(Request $request, $type = self::MASTER_REQUEST, $catch = true) {
+    // @todo Decide which user agent we want to use.
+    $request->headers->set('user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0');
+    $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0');
+    $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0';
+
+    // @todo ideally we would detect browser vs. not browser and then anonymize
+    // the accept header, accept-encoding and accept-language.
+
+    $random_ip = implode(':', str_split(md5(mt_rand()), 4));
+    $request->server->set('REMOTE_ADDR', $random_ip);
+    $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $random_ip;
+    return $this->httpKernel->handle($request, $type, $catch);
+  }
+
+}