Referer Control

Referer Control

Control the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.

Total ratings for Referer Control
4.13 (Rating count: 256)
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Pros
  • Works great for some users
  • Straightforward UI
  • Does the job as intended
Cons
  • Does not work in certain browsers like Opera and Vivaldi
  • Does not effectively remove the referrer in all cases
  • Lacks instructions or documentation
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work or has functionality issues
  • No instructions or poor documentation
  • Works fine or does the job for some users
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All time rating average: 4.13
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2023-03-29
Eduard Mrazek
Eduard Mrazek
ruSSian spyware geolocation, measurement etc. to "tl.ytlogs.ru"
2022-12-26
Aero Windwalker
Aero Windwalker
It does not work if I were to load the target url in a video tag. It works for fetch and xhr.
2022-10-31
Owain Baber
Owain Baber
The < default action > blocks referrers on pages you haven't configured which renders some completely unusable. It's impossible to login to Synology Photos web app with this extension active and sites like the Nextdoor app are completely broken with this active.
2022-08-09
Benedikt Buchert
Benedikt Buchert
Does not work for Javascript document.referrer changes. No intent from the developer to fix. So useless for me.
2022-01-27
Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson
This extension works in Chrome, but unfortunately not in Opera. Also, keep in mind that in order to get this extension to work on search engine results pages, you need to manually tick the "Allow access to search page results" in the extension details. This is turned off by default. Note to the dev, to get it to work in Opera, you need to do the following near the beginning of refererControl.js: (isChrome || isOpera) && 72 <= chromeVersion && optExtraInfoSpec.push("extraHeaders");
2022-01-27
Andrew Ronding
Andrew Ronding
Works great, many thanks.
2021-12-29
Trung Quân Võ
Trung Quân Võ
Doesn't work! I'm a developer and I tried removing the referer both in onBeforeSendHeaders() and onSendHeaders. Google chrome still adds it in the final request anyway. If you want to remove it you have to change the source code and build your own browser.
2021-12-29
Mark Henry
Mark Henry
en Doesn't work! I'm a developer and I tried removing the referer both in onBeforeSendHeaders() and onSendHeaders. Google chrome still adds it in the final request anyway. If you want to remove it you have to change the source code and build your own browser.
2021-11-30
Keithen Hamilton
Keithen Hamilton
There are no instructions!
2021-11-14
Cake Cake
Cake Cake
Very nice tool
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