Referer Control

Control the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.

What is Referer Control?

Referer Control is a popular Chrome extension by keepa.com. This extension has 136,559 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.15, and is most similar to IP Address & Geolocation and User-Agent Switcher. The latest version, 1.35, was updated 4 years ago.

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By: http://keepa.com

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Users: 136,559 ▲ 896

Rating: 4.15 (254)

Version: 1.35 (Last updated: 2018-12-27)

Creation date: 2018-12-27

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 82.44K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

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Other platforms

Referer Control (v1.31)

39 3,205

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 1849 ▼ 1

Other rankings

#1916 in Productivity ▼ 9 #25 in control keyword ▼ 1 #154 in grant keyword ▼ 1

Summary

Referer Control grants full control over the HTTP Referer. You can forge any referrer you want, both globally or on a per-site basis. Alternatively you can choose to disable the Referer completely.

Also works on the JavaScript document.referrer!

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Risk impact

Referer Control 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 Control 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 Control has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.

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