HTTP Switchboard is a

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(which also works with other Chromium-based browsers such as

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(from version 15) and the

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) that allows filtering of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests based on the content and/or the target's

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. It comes with an optional, pre-defined blacklist of

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s that might be a privacy threat when sending requests to them and/or a security threat/annoyance due to the content delivered in the response. HTTP Switchboard's developer, Raymond Hill, has also developed other browser extensions, including

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which he actively leads as

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. HTTP Switchboard is no longer being actively developed. It has instead been replaced by

as well as uMatrix, the latter being an as-of-now unmaintained extension aimed at more advanced users.

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