Referer Manager

Control your referer headers. Apply flexible rules to block, allow, or change HTTP referer.

What is Referer Manager?

Referer Manager is a popular Chrome extension by Kornelia Olofsson. This extension has 934,095 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.70, and was removed from Chrome Web Store 4 days ago. The latest version, 1.5.3, was updated 6 months ago.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-03-17

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By: Kornelia Olofsson

Users: 934,095

Rating: 4.70 (10)

Version: 1.5.3 (Last updated: 2022-09-16)

Creation date: 2021-05-16

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage

Size: 271.36K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood

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Referer Manager (v1.5.1)

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Summary

Referer manager changes HTTP referer with flexible configuration. You can spoof a referrer for some reason. It could be helpful for developers and marketers. 

Features:
✰ Block, allow, change referrers
✰ Applies to both referrer HTTP headers and javascript document.referrer value
✰ Apply rules for a specific domain, URL, or even using regular expressions
✰ You can apply a rule to requests originated from a specific domain to requests to a specific domain, or only to 3rd party requests.

Please note, that by default JS referrer spoofing is disabled. It could break functionality on some sites.

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Safety

Risk impact

Referer Manager requires a number of risky 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 Referer Manager if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

Referer Manager is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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User reviews

There is no option to opt out of Google Analytics in the options as stated in the privacy policy.

Alexa Margaret, 2022-12-29

Overall good app but there are times where when you set a site to "Allow" in the filter and it still does not work. For example on Instagram.com I cannot get some images to load and I set it to "Allow" and still the site does not work unless I turn the entire addon off. I tried contacting the developer using the email here but it says The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.