Reviews for Toggle Referrer (with optional spoofing feature)
Toggle Referrer (with optional spoofing feature) by Manuel Reimer
Review by Tangenta
23 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by mmmel4real, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18377883, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by gabrielpf3, 2 years agoWorks as intended, but please add some sort of whitelist feature. I use this extension for literally a single website, and it's extremely annoying to have to always disable it when I'm doing anything other than accessing that one website otherwise a lot of stuff breaks.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry, but the primary goal of this extension is to disable the referrer primarily (which is also why there is a setting in the Add-on preferences to auto-disable on browser restart and why I create the spoofing list to even NOT use the referrer on sites that insist on it).
Maybe you find another Add-on which fits your usecase better. - Rated 5 out of 5by RaulMacro, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Karpan Koroviziniek, 3 years agoSimple but functional, does exactly what it says, can't ask for more really. I wish the author would do an equivalent "on/off button" add-on for the dom.storage setting, especially as more and more sites annoyingly use local storage but I refuse to have it turned on permanently for obvious privacy reasons.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13248412, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pelle, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by AddonAnalyser, 4 years agoGood extension. Please add a whitelist feature that we can modify in add-on settings page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16664845, 4 years agoIf I am using the spoofer, who is listed as the referrer? Can I alter who the referrer is listed as. For example, can i make it look like I linked from Bing? Also, if I do not use the spoofer, will it appear as though I went to the website directly, or will it indicate that I blocked the website from receiving the referrer information?
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThe "spoofer" is *only* for known problematic websites. The rules are visible here:
https://github.com/M-Reimer/togglereferrer/blob/master/spoofing.js#L34
If you come across some website which does not work with Referrer disabled, then you may open an Issue here:
https://github.com/M-Reimer/togglereferrer/issues
describing which website this is.
The goal of the "spoofer" is not to spoof random Referrer values but to make websites work well even without a valid referrer. The idea is to spoof just as much referrer as needed to make the website happy. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14608175, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13525375, 6 years agoWorks great. If you could add the swisscows.ch search engine to the spoof list that would be great. If not, no worries. Cheers!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13864526, 6 years agoNice and simple, but sadly breaks Twitter because it doesn't have a way to allow same-domain referrals.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe latest version allows to use Twitter even with Referrer disabled if you use the spoofing feature. - Rated 5 out of 5by Anton, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HpK, 6 years agoSehr nützlich und einfach zu handhaben. Mtks Manuel.
Vorschlag (falls nicht zu kompliziert zu programmieren): Möglichkeit, Seiten die den Referrer benötigen, speichern zu können, damit das Addon den Referrer bei Bedarf automatisch ein- und ausschalten könnte.Developer response
posted 6 years agoDies ist mit der genutzten Firefox-Schnittstelle leider nicht möglich. Die kennt nur "an" und "aus".
Update: Aktuelle Versionen haben eine optionale Spoofing-Funktion die (immer noch ohne einen "realen" Referrer zu senden) problematische Webseiten zum Funktionieren "überredet". - Rated 5 out of 5by Cybo1927, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yomito, 7 years agoAnother great minimalist addon that delivers. Thank you very much.