InControl - Block URLs, Sneaky Redirects & Background Requests

Tracking since Apr 21, 2026.

Changelog

• May 9, 2026
  description

  What it catches
  InControl watches two kinds of behavior that normal browsing tools ignore:
  
  Redirect hijacks — you click a link to site A, it silently redirects through B, C, D before landing somewhere else. InControl surfaces the full chain.
  Background fires — you load a page and it quietly fires requests to dozens of other domains (trackers, ad networks, fingerprinters). InControl lists them per tab so you can see exactly who your current page is talking to.
  
  How to use the plugin
  Click the InControl icon in the toolbar or the extensions menu. The popup has three tabs:
  
  Activity
  Live view of what's happening on the current tab. Redirect chains and third-party domains appear as a tree. Hover over any domain, and use the icons to the right to Block or Allow it.
  
  Blocked
  Every domain you've chosen to block. Future requests to these domains are stopped before they load. Hover to unblock.
  
  Allowed
  Domains you've marked as trusted. InControl stops flagging these in the Activity view. Useful for CDNs or services you rely on.

  What's new in 1.1.0                                                      
  1. Multi-hop redirect detection: every interim URL in a redirect chain  (HTTP 30x, JavaScript, meta-refresh) is now captured and shown as a single connected tree, so you can see and block any hop the chain passes through — not just the final landing page. 
  2. The current site now appears as the first row of the activity tree, with inline Block / Allow buttons alongside every other domain. 
  
  What it catches
  InControl watches two kinds of behavior that normal browsing tools ignore:
  
  Redirect hijacks — you click a link to site A, it silently redirects through B, C, D before landing somewhere else. InControl surfaces the full chain.
  Background fires — you load a page and it quietly fires requests to dozens of other domains (trackers, ad networks, fingerprinters). InControl lists them per tab so you can see exactly who your current page is talking to.
  
  How to use the plugin
  Click the InControl icon in the toolbar or the extensions menu. The popup has three tabs:
  
  Activity
  Live view of what's happening on the current tab. Redirect chains and third-party domains appear as a tree. Hover over any domain, and use the icons to the right to Block or Allow it.
  
  Blocked
  Every domain you've chosen to block. Future requests to these domains are stopped before they load. Hover to unblock.
  
  Allowed
  Domains you've marked as trusted. InControl stops flagging these in the Activity view. Useful for CDNs or services you rely on.

• May 9, 2026
  name

  InControl — Block Sneaky Redirects & Background Requests

  InControl - Block URLs, Sneaky Redirects & Background Requests

Permissions & access

Permissions

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