Reviews of Smart Referer

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List of user reviews and ratings for Smart Referer

Total ratings

4.08 (Rating count: 76)

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Review summary

Users find Smart Referer generally effective, lightweight, and editable via a downloadable whitelist. Major complaints are the whitelist-only approach (no blacklist/per-site control), site breakage with no easy per-site disable, suspicious dweb/IPFS network requests for updates, an outdated/unmaintained project, and a clunky or unreliable exceptions UI.

Pros

Effectively modifies the Referer for many sites — users report it works in most cases.
Allows a customizable whitelist (can be downloaded and edited as a local file).
Lightweight and appreciated by some users for its core functionality.

Cons

Uses a whitelist-only model — users want blacklist or per-site control and find whitelist too restrictive.
Breaks some websites and lacks an easy way to disable or create exceptions for individual domains (examples mentioned: pixiv.net, instagram.com).
Fetches its whitelist via dweb/IPFS endpoints (globalupload.io, gateway.ipfs.io, ipfs.infura.io, etc.), which appears as suspicious network traffic and has frequent update checks.
Outdated/unmaintained — last update reported years ago and the whitelist hasn’t been refreshed.
Poor or unintuitive interface for managing rules and exceptions; exception list may not work reliably.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.70

All time rating average: 4.08

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11% (9)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-10-25	Sa*****	This plugin breaks the Pixiv.net website. Because I can't find how to disable this plugin for pixiv.net I uninstalled it
This plugin breaks the Pixiv.net website. Because I can't find how to disable this plugin for pixiv.net I uninstalled it
2025-10-14	Q *****

2025-03-31	远离*****