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Trace by AbsoluteDouble

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  • by hosa, 3 years ago
    Breaks Bing Video thumbnails .. I would like to know the exact configuration cause in order to fix it..
    Edit: The problem resides in the default trace blocklist, I would like the developers feedback on this..
  • by Firefox user 16033028, 4 years ago
  • by fedorg, 4 years ago
    Usually it works fine - I don't nearly as much personalized advertising as I used to. Breaks every Google and Amazon dashboard. Whitelisting doesn't work at all, so I have to remember to pause and unpause all the time.
  • by Firefox user 15571209, 5 years ago
    Good app... would it be possible to add a feature for spoofing the system timezone? if system time and local do not match, thats a total flag. Surprised that this feature is not available...

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Hi,

    This feature is planned for a future release, at the moment I'm working on making the addon more stable and efficient.

    Thanks
  • by Firefox user 15324926, 5 years ago
    Lots of privacy tweaks all in one place,i was doing several of these tweaks anyway directly or thro addons .but this screws them all together in one place .very convenient also with a simple interface ,very usable,nice one
  • by The Beard Below My Chin, 6 years ago
    Promising add-on. In the future could you add 'release notes' to updates, I see this gets updated quite frequently with no info.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hi,

    Please see https://absolutedouble.co.uk/trace/information.html for information about updates

    Thanks
  • by Fred Thompson, 6 years ago
    One of many things I use to block junk. Still opens console in Tor Browser...
  • by Aragorn, 6 years ago
    Thank you for your hard work. Do you have any guidance on what other Add-ons are redundant if I have Trace installed?

    here are the ones that I have that I think may be:

    ClearURLs, Neat URL, Request Control, Skip Redirect, Smart Referer, Don't track me Google, Google search link fix, google-no-tracking-url, WebAPI Manager

    I also have Cookie Autodelete, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. Ublock, Umatrix, HTTPS Everywhere.

    If you had a wiki or FAQ that would be great. This seems to be the only way to contact you at the moment

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hey, there is a FAQ, it's just not very well linked to (I shall fix this asap)
    https://absolutedouble.co.uk/trace/faq.html

    Email is another method of contact too, I try to reply as fast as I can :)

    Personally, I just use Trace, HTTPS Everywhere, Decentraleyes and a few other custom addons which aren't public.

    Thank you for the feedback, I really do appreciate it
  • by Firefox user 13909246, 6 years ago
    When uBlock ('uBlock Origin' now) came out I was of those who believed it was to become a major actor, extension in the area of browsers' privacy. I believe Trace has a similar potential.

    Though experimental at this stage it performs nicely, Canvas blocking included among many other anti-tracking features.

    Neither an expert nor a novice (I started with Firefox 2.x versions), a Firefox "fan" since always, running 37 extensions at this time on a Quantum I'm most fond of, tightly committed to privacy and security (hence 'Firefox'), I am truly interested with this 'Trace' extension. I welcome it and decide to accompany it within its development. Experimental means a work in progress but as it is now it is, IMO, operational even if slight enhancements may be considered.