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Plausible Shield

Automatically shield your browser from Plausible tracking from your websites.

Plausible Analytics is a privacy-friendly web analytics platform. As website owners, we would like to shield ourselves from Plausible tracking from our own websites. While Plausible provides many ways to shield website owners, it would be convenient if we can share the list of websites we would like to shield from across all our devices.

This browser extension, Plausible Shield, does exactly this. You set a list of websites that you would like to shield from, and Plausible Shield:

  • automatically blocks Plausible tracking on these websites, and
  • enables your browser to sync this list via sync in Chrome, Firefox Sync, or a similar feature from another browser.

Screenshots​

Extension Settings​

Shielded Page​

How Do I Know the Extension is Working?​

Under the hood, Plausible Shield blocks Plausible tracking using a localStorage flag officially supported by Plausible. You can visit your website, fire up the browser console (Ctrl+Shift+C), and you should see the following line at the top of the console:

Ignoring Event: localStorage flag

Changelog​

v0.2.0​

  • Fix a sync-related permission annoyance.

    Before this release, we used optional_host_permissions, which does not allow browsers to sync permissions granted to individual browser instances. This in some sense defeats the purposes of this extension because this extension won't be activated on the required URLs. Using host_permissions should be OK because security/privacy-aware users can change what sites are allowed in extension details page.

  • Stop minifying the package for better transparency of what is being executed in browser.

v0.1.0​

Initial release.

Plausible Shield is an open source project. If you are interested, feel free to check out the source code.