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Global Privacy Control (GPC) Inspector

This GPC Chrome Extension enables the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal and evaluates how websites respond to the setting

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Time on the storeAbout 3 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

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Chrome Web Store rating4.5 / 511 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update13 Jan 2024Version 0.1.4, 2.7 years ago

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Reviews

Isaac Montaine2 months ago
Works!
Patrick Daly3 months ago
Perfectly simple and effective. Note that this really just signals GPC and reveals some debug info. But it doesn't actually do any analysis to understand if the site honored the signal. For that you use to use something else like getprivisy.com.
Cullen McDaniel9 months ago
Works perfectly, from what I've seen the devs have great response time to bugs and other issues. Even better that I haven't had to write one, so if I could give more than 5 stars I would.
Rome Williams12 months ago
The idea is a good one in theory, but in practice the recognition mechanism is overly specific. If the confirmation code doesn't come back an exact match, the result will be an incorrect 'fail' (false negative). There are a growing number of websites that have GPC enablement: United, Sixt, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Fiat, and many others, but this extension is not providing an affirmative response to those compliant sites. The New York Times site gets a green light, but that's the only one I found in my sample size. So if you are a consumer or state privacy regulator using this to try and determine if a privacy election is being honored by a company, be forewarned that it doesn't necessarily give you an accurate answer.
Ryan Guthrie2.7 years ago
Previously knocked a few stars off because of a small but important bug with the signal. *However*, the devs not only fixed it almost immediately, they also tracked me down on another account because my email was deactivated, to let me know. Honestly shocking how responsive they are. Most of my paid products don't have that level of service. So 5 stars for the extension, and would recommend their business as well if anyone needs it.
Mary kolan3.1 years ago
How can I get and extension to prevent my zoosk profile from getting band
Rutuj Runwal3.2 years ago
Hi Delson, The extension is really good and works fine There is a minor issue though, whenever the enable GPC option is checked and unchecked, the details are not visible right away even if the page is reloaded. The extension needs to be reopened again for the details to show and it seems to be checking GPC compliance on chrome:// or file:// type urls where it is supposed to do nothing. Also I am confused with the way the headers are set when you are using declarativeNetRequest to set the GPC header, the extension is applying it to all resource types like images,fonts,stylesheets as well is that intended and really necessary? Thanks. Rutuj Runwal, Creator - RR Adblocker
Ward Chan3.4 years ago
hi Delson, I saw your reply. But it's still like what Vict said, `Sec-Gpc` is indeed not set in the header. My device is a Mac with version 13.3.1 and Chrome with version 112. I can reproduce the same problem on another Windows device, and another colleague of mine has also reported the same issue. Maybe you should verify this issue on a clean machine? https://imgur.com/a/eccVDl7
Vict Vict3.4 years ago
It is quite good but it does not actually add Sec-Gpc header to requests! So it wont work on websited that use backend to detect GPC. Please fix it. UPD: seems to be fixed now! The devs are great!