Google Tag Manager Blocker

Google Tag Manager Blocker

Prevent yourself from triggering Google Tag Manager on your own website.

What is Google Tag Manager Blocker?
Google Tag Manager Blocker is a Chrome Extension that allows you to block any connection to Google Tag Manager to avoid triggering your website's analytics and event data. Ideal for website developers and owners who wish to maintain accurate tracking data by blocking their internal traffic from being counted.
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Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.00 (4)
Version: 0.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-02-17)
Creation date: 2021-02-14
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 27.38K
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Summary

This extension allows you to block internal traffic from triggering a connection to Google Tag Manager, hence allowing you to avoid corrupting the analytics and events data generated by your website.

See the GitHub page here: https://github.com/tommyrharper/gtm-disabler-chrome

In order to install this on your on your website you will need to: Insert the following tag into your HTML header:

<meta name="GTM-Blocker" content="disabled" />

Now you can use this piece of code wherever you connect to Google Tag Manager on the FE of your application using the following Logic:

const GTMBlocker = document.querySelector('meta[name="GTM-Blocker"]');
const GTMBlockerEnabled = GTMBlocker.content === 'enabled'
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by Octave Laurentin Octave Laurentin, 2024-02-13

Super useful!
by Jake Bridge Jake Bridge, 2021-03-16
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Risk impact

Google Tag Manager Blocker is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

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