Trace - Online Tracking Protection

Browse online without leaving a Trace, because who wants to be tracked?

What is Trace - Online Tracking Protection?

Trace - Online Tracking Protection is a one-man-built Chrome extension designed to keep your online activity private. It offers robust protection against numerous advanced tracking techniques that websites across the web employ. It blocks malicious domains, prevents hyperlink auditing, controls HTTP referrer headers, spoofs screen resolution, user-agent, and more, ensuring that you can browse the web without leaving a trace of your activity.

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Extension stats

By: AbsoluteDouble

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Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.26 (57)

Version: 3.0.6 (Last updated: 2021-06-01)

Creation date: 2020-03-12

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

alarms
notifications
privacy
storage
unlimitedStorage
tabs
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
<all_urls>

Size: 349.18K

Email: ab*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 5306 ▼ 37

Other rankings

#3187 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 1

#2 in tracking keyword 24 ▲ 1

#31 in protect keyword 32 ▲ 1

#36 in online keyword 68 ▲ 17

#92 in data privacy keyword 34

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Trace - Online Tracking Protection (v3.0.5)

3.80

(4) 1,971+

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Extension summary

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Trace

An extension to stop multiple advanced tracking techniques employed by websites all over the web.

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Trace can protect against:

Canvas Fingerprint Spoofing
Audio Fingerprinting Protection
WebGL Fingerprinting Protection
JS Crypto Currency Mining Domain Blocking
WebRTC IP Leakage Protection
WebRTC Device Enumeration Protection
Client Rects Protection
User-Agent Spoofing

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Effective for privacy against fingerprinting
Open-source code available on GitHub
Provides multiple fingerprinting protection features
Can bypass certain detection sites like iphey.com

Cons

Causes loading errors on Google services
Issues with misdetecting display resolution and operating system
Regularly forgets user-defined rules for websites
Some users mention conflicts with other extensions

Most mentioned

Good at protecting against fingerprinting
Loading errors with Google platform services
Inconsistencies between Edge and Chrome versions
Desire for more features like timezone and WebGL spoofing
Concerns about potential premium pricing

Recent reviews

This is a really great diamond in the rough for making your browser more private against fingerprinting. It was able to make Vivaldi comparable to Brave for me in regard to coveryourtracks.eff.org seeing Vivaldi as having a randomized fingerprint, where many other options I tried failed with Vivaldi. The code is opensource on github for this extension, which can be found through the extension's settings under info. On their github the dev says they are planning to adapt the extension for the upcoming Manifest version 3 API that will impact many extensions including uBlock. I wanted to check out the developers website and see if I could support them in some way but unfortunately their site seems to be down atm. Dev, you should make it super easy for people to support you through your extension directly, you're doing a great job here as far as I can tell and you'd deserve the support. You should share your work a bit more around online too.

CG, 2024-10-04

paozinhodequeijo 6088, 2024-07-23

Thank you for your work guys!You are doing a good job for people, I am so proud that there are people like you.

Alexey Puchkov (ultramarine), 2024-02-23

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Trace - Online Tracking Protection requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.