Compare Chrome extensions: Disconnect vs Decentraleyes
Stats | Disconnect | Decentraleyes |
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User count | 500,000+ | 100,000+ |
Average rating | 4.40 | 4.77 |
Rating count | 3,141 | 216 |
Last updated | 2020-10-07 | 2023-08-25 |
Size | 1.04M | 6.90M |
Version | 20.3.1.1 | 2.0.18 |
Short description | |
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Make the web faster, more private, and more secure. | Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. |
Full summary | |
Disconnect lets you visualize and block the invisible websites that track you. Load the pages you go to 44% faster. Stop tracking by thousands of third-party sites. Disconnect was named the best privacy tool by the New York Times (2016), Innovation Award winner for Best Privacy and Security software at South by Southwest (2015), listed as one of the 100 best innovations of the year by Popular Science and one of the 20 best Chrome extensions by Lifehacker. Disconnect is open-source http://git.io/Do5OtA, pay-what-you-want software https://disconnect.me/support. You can get help on our site https://disconnect.me/disconnect/help. Note: Green (or checked) means blocked! |
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.
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. |