📝 Changelog [2.5.0] - 2025-01-28 ✨ New Features

Toggle Capture Button — New option to show/hide the camera button on info badges (PR #11 by @ystolzenburg)

⚡ Performance

Faster API lookups — Reduced throttle (300→150ms) and increased concurrency (5→8 parallel requests)
Faster cloud cache — Reduced batch delay (500→200ms) for quicker responses
Parallelized broadcasts — Settings updates now 5-10x faster across tabs
Optimized timings — Snappier search, faster initial page load, reduced theme detection overhead

💰 Cloud Cost Optimization

Stats endpoint — No longer lists all KV keys (~70% cost reduction)
Edge caching — Lookups cached at Cloudflare edge for 1 hour (80% fewer KV reads)
Contribution deduplication — Skip re-uploads within 24 hours (90% fewer writes)
Server-side rate limiting — 60 requests/min/IP to prevent abuse

[2.4.0] - 2025-12-28 ✨ New Features

Tag-Based Blocking — Block users based on emojis, symbols, or text patterns in their display names
Tags are matched against the user's display name (not username)
New "Tags" tab in the blocking modal and options page
Works alongside existing country and region blocking
Tags included in Export/Import for backup and restore

🎨 UI/UX

[2.3.2] - 2025-12-22 🐛 Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where the logged-in user's own tweets were being hidden/blocked (causing infinite scroll loops on profile pages)
Resolved Firefox initialization crash by ensuring safe DOM injection (fixing the incomplete patch in v2.3.1)
Fixed intermittent Firefox initialization crash when document.head is temporarily unavailable at document_start

🎨 UI/UX

[2.2.0] - 2024-11-30 ✨ New Features

Region Blocking — Block entire geographic regions (Africa, Europe, South Asia, etc.)
Some X users show regional locations like "South Asia" or "Europe" instead of specific countries
New tabbed interface in sidebar modal and options page (Countries | Regions)
Geographic globe emojis: 🌍 Africa/Europe/West Asia, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia/Oceania
Blocked regions can be managed separately from blocked countries
Export/Import now includes blocked regions
Highlight Mode — NEW alternative to hiding blocked tweets
Toggle in Options page: "Hide blocked tweets" vs "Highlight blocked tweets"
Highlighted tweets shown with subtle amber left border instead of being hidden
Useful for users who want to see content but be warned about location
Setting syncs with Export/Import

[2.1.0] - 2024-11-29 ✨ New Features

Show VPN Users Toggle — New option (default ON) to show/hide tweets from users detected as using VPN/proxy
Available in both popup and options page
Instantly hides/shows VPN user tweets without reload
Enhanced Export/Import — Full configuration backup and restore
Export now includes: settings, blocked countries, cache with metadata (version, timestamp)
New Import function to restore configurations across devices or browsers
JSON format with validation and confirmation dialog
Enhanced VPN/Proxy Statistics — Statistics now show VPN user count with percentage (e.g., 🔒 VPN/Proxy (17%))
Rate Limit Status Indicator — Real-time display in popup and options page showing API rate limit status