diff --git a/config/generic.json.sample b/config/generic.json.sample
index ab75bd1..e0b4617 100644
--- a/config/generic.json.sample
+++ b/config/generic.json.sample
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
   "website_listen_ip": "0.0.0.0",
   "website_listen_port": 5100,
   "systemd_service_name": "lookyloo",
+  "default_public": true,
   "splash_url": "http://127.0.0.1:8050",
-  "default_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36",
+  "default_user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36",
   "users": {},
   "time_delta_on_index": {
     "weeks": 1,
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@
     "website_listen_ip": "IP Flask will listen on. Defaults to 0.0.0.0, meaning all interfaces.",
     "website_listen_port": "Port Flask will listen on.",
     "systemd_service_name": "(Optional) Name of the systemd service if your project has one.",
+    "default_public": "If true, the capture is public and will be visible on the index page by default (can be unticked on the capture page)."
     "splash_url": "URL to connect to splash",
     "default_user_agent": "Ultimate fallback if the capture form, or the asynchronous submission, doesn't provide a user agent.",
     "users": "It is some kind of an admin accounts. Format: {username: password}",
diff --git a/website/web/__init__.py b/website/web/__init__.py
index dacb903..1b94561 100644
--- a/website/web/__init__.py
+++ b/website/web/__init__.py
@@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ def _prepare_capture_template(user_ua: Optional[str], predefined_url: Optional[s
         flash('The request will be enqueued, but capturing may take a while and require the administrator to wake up.', 'error')
     return render_template('capture.html', user_agents=user_agents, default=default_ua,
                            max_depth=max_depth, personal_ua=user_ua,
+                           default_public=get_config('generic', 'default_public'),
                            predefined_url_to_capture=predefined_url if predefined_url else '')
 
 
diff --git a/website/web/templates/capture.html b/website/web/templates/capture.html
index 8d92bd1..471139a 100644
--- a/website/web/templates/capture.html
+++ b/website/web/templates/capture.html
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     <div class="form-group row">
       <div class="col-sm-10">
         <div class="form-check">
-          <input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" name="listing" checked="true"></input>
+            <input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" name="listing" {% if default_public %}checked="true"{% endif %}></input>
           <label for="listing" class="form-check-label">Display results on public page</label>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         <div class="col-sm-10">
           <div class="form-check">
             <input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" name="personal_ua"></input>
-            <label for="personal_ua" class="form-check-label">Tick the box to use the current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent">user-agent</a> of your own browser:</br>
+            <label for="personal_ua" class="form-check-label">Use the current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent">user-agent</a> of your own browser:</br>
                 {{ personal_ua }}
             </label>
           </div>
@@ -144,7 +144,13 @@
       {% endfor%}
       <div class="dropdown-divider"></div>
       <center>
-        <b>By default, the capture is public. If you do not want that, untick the box at the top of the form.</b>
+        <b>
+        {% if default_public %}
+          By default, the capture is public. If you do not want that, untick the box at the top of the form.
+        {% else %}
+          By default, the capture is private (not visible on the index page). If you want it to be public tick the box at the top of the form.
+        {% endif %}
+        </b>
         </br>
         </br>
         <button type="submit" class="new-capture-button" id="btn-looking">Start looking!</button>