Reviews for Disconnect
Disconnect
Rated 4.1 out of 5
4.1 Stars out of 5
463 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5I'm concerned, because googletagmanager.com is not blocked anymore. On the one hand, I can understand the arguments [1], as Google Tag Manager is not a tracker itself, and it's fine for me to unblock it. BUT the domain googletagmanager.com is also used to serve retargeting scripts and Google Ad scripts. This aspect is not mentioned at all in the discussion [1], which worries me even more!
[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/issues/31 - Rated 1 out of 5Beware. This is not open source. It is written at the bottom of their own page: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect
- Rated 5 out of 5Does its job
- Rated 5 out of 5Didn't work on the last Firefox update. "Download Failed. Please check your connection." works with the new one. Thank you
- Rated 5 out of 5Perfection materialized...
- Rated 2 out of 5i just wanted to see how it can control my universal ads
- Rated 1 out of 5Did not make pages load any faster than before. Also, breaks all google sites - content in drive, youtube, etc does not show up and when I got to a google doc by having a link directly sent, I could not type anything.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThis is very strange behavior, definitely not normal and we can't reproduce. Any details you could send to support@disconnect.me would be appreciated. Thank you. - Rated 2 out of 5For an extension that's supposed to be about privacy, the fact that the permissions have changed to now require "unlimited storage of client side data" is incredibly suspicious.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe did not change the permission on our end. Also, we collect zero data (except if you explicitly volunteer it, like if you send us an email). Our entire business is protecting your privacy, we don't make any money on your data. In order to block trackers on websites you visit we need the permissions we ask for, unfortunately. - Rated 5 out of 5one simple addons with maximum ability
- Rated 1 out of 5Why do you not have options - this new update caches pages - and I don't want that - sure, some might - hence the need for choices.
so - uninstalled. - Rated 2 out of 5Would be great but often "forgets" what I whitelisted on FF. No problem w/Opera or Chrome, but I don't want to use them as they're less secure. Since I disabled this on FF opening browser is faster because my home page isn't blacklisted by this ext. Yes, I even whitelisted my homepage in FF options. Running Windows. Give me a solution and I'll gladly change my review. Using other quality priv/sec ext.s so not flying naked, but this was, could be a nice layer. Yeah, I saw the instructions about installing it before other P&S ext.s. Still "forgets". This is review is meant to be constructive, not negative. I know these ext.s are hard work.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoReally appreciate the feedback and we are looking into a solution to these issues. Would be great to have more details about "forgetting" whitelisting. Is this happening between sessions, for example. Any more details sent to support@disconnect.me would be appreciated. Thank you.