Decentraleyes

Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery.

What is Decentraleyes?

"Decentraleyes" is a privacy-enhancing Chrome extension that serves local files to negate requests reaching networks such as Google Hosted Libraries. This circumvents the issue of websites breaking when blocking content from large third-parties, enhancing your online privacy. Decentraleyes complements traditional blockers and requires no prior configuration to work. Note that while it successfully prevents many tracking requests, it's not a comprehensive solution.

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By: Thomas Rientjes

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Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.77 (218) ▲ 1 new ratings

Version: 2.0.19 (Last updated: 2024-03-27)

Creation date: 2019-10-11

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://*/*
privacy
storage
unlimitedStorage
webNavigation
webRequest
webRequestBlocking

Size: 7.20M

Email: de*****@protonmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1971 ▼ 6

Other rankings

#18 in Privacy & Security #30 in deliver keyword 8 #115 in prevent keyword 10 ▲ 10 #195 in google keep keyword 50 #256 in come keyword 11 ▲ 11

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Decentraleyes (v2.0.19)

4.80 (1,426) 262,701+

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4.80 (28) 57,318+

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Summary

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It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers.

Websites have increasingly begun to rely much more on large third-parties for content delivery. Canceling requests for ads or trackers is usually without issue, however blocking actual content, not unexpectedly, breaks pages. The aim of this add-on is to cut out the middleman by providing lightning speed delivery of local (bundled) files to improve online privacy.

 • Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.
 • Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al.
 • Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.

Note: Decentraleyes is no silver bullet, but it does prevent a lot of websites from making you send these kinds of requests. Ultimately, you can make Decentraleyes block requests for any missing CDN resources, too.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Improves privacy and security while browsing
Prevents calls to third party services that may contain trackers and spyware
Useful for saving bandwidth

Cons

May break some websites or functionality
Not always clear which extension is causing issues
Limited documentation and open source information

Most mentioned

Improves privacy and security while browsing

Recent reviews

Diogo Miguel Cunha, 2024-05-24

It works well for the CDNs it covers. But there are many other CDNs now than there used to be. It doesn't seem like the extension is providing its own local cache for all the fonts, common functions and other "free services" those CDNs claim to provide.

Kyra, 2024-03-06

PC-GANGSTER Style, 2024-04-15

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Safety

Risk impact

Decentraleyes is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Decentraleyes if you trust the publisher.