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X Posed Account Location

👥 791 users
📦 v2.5.0
💾 87.9KiB
📅 2026-01-29
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Overview

## [2.5.0] - 2025-01-28

### ✨ New Features
- **Toggle Capture Button** — New option to show/hide the camera button on info badges (PR #11 by @ystolzenburg)

### ⚡ Performance
- **Faster API lookups** — Reduced throttle (300→150ms) and increased concurrency (5→8 parallel requests)
- **Faster cloud cache** — Reduced batch delay (500→200ms) for quicker responses
- **Parallelized broadcasts** — Settings updates now 5-10x faster across tabs
- **Optimized timings** — Snappier search, faster initial page load, reduced theme detection overhead

### 💰 Cloud Cost Optimization
- **Stats endpoint** — No longer lists all KV keys (~70% cost reduction)
- **Edge caching** — Lookups cached at Cloudflare edge for 1 hour (80% fewer KV reads)
- **Contribution deduplication** — Skip re-uploads within 24 hours (90% fewer writes)
- **Server-side rate limiting** — 60 requests/min/IP to prevent abuse

## [2.4.0] - 2025-12-28

### ✨ New Features
- **Tag-Based Blocking** — Block users based on emojis, symbols, or text patterns in their display names
- Tags are matched against the user's display name (not username)
- New "Tags" tab in the blocking modal and options page
- Works alongside existing country and region blocking
- Tags included in Export/Import for backup and restore

### 🎨 UI/UX
- Added count badges to blocking modal tabs showing number of blocked items
- Streamlined tag management interface in sidebar modal and options page
- "Blocked Locations" section renamed to "Blocking" for clarity

## [2.3.2] - 2025-12-22

### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where the logged-in user's own tweets were being hidden/blocked (causing infinite scroll loops on profile pages)
- Resolved Firefox initialization crash by ensuring safe DOM injection (fixing the incomplete patch in v2.3.1)
- Fixed intermittent Firefox initialization crash when `document.head` is temporarily unavailable at `document_start`

### 🎨 UI/UX
- **New Hovercard (on badge hover)** with rich account metadata:
- Location, device, VPN/proxy signal
- Verification signals (Blue / Verified / ID / Protected)
- Account created date, "Verified since", handle-change count
- Stable X internal account identifier labeled as **User ID**
- Affiliation label (if present)
- Info badge actions are always visible (info hint + evidence camera)

## [2.2.0] - 2024-11-30

### ✨ New Features
- **Region Blocking** — Block entire geographic regions (Africa, Europe, South Asia, etc.)
- Some X users show regional locations like "South Asia" or "Europe" instead of specific countries
- New tabbed interface in sidebar modal and options page (Countries | Regions)
- Geographic globe emojis: 🌍 Africa/Europe/West Asia, 🌎 Americas, 🌏 Asia/Oceania
- Blocked regions can be managed separately from blocked countries
- Export/Import now includes blocked regions
- **Highlight Mode** — NEW alternative to hiding blocked tweets
- Toggle in Options page: "Hide blocked tweets" vs "Highlight blocked tweets"
- Highlighted tweets shown with subtle amber left border instead of being hidden
- Useful for users who want to see content but be warned about location
- Setting syncs with Export/Import

## [2.1.0] - 2024-11-29

### ✨ New Features
- **Show VPN Users Toggle** — New option (default ON) to show/hide tweets from users detected as using VPN/proxy
- Available in both popup and options page
- Instantly hides/shows VPN user tweets without reload
- **Enhanced Export/Import** — Full configuration backup and restore
- Export now includes: settings, blocked countries, cache with metadata (version, timestamp)
- New Import function to restore configurations across devices or browsers
- JSON format with validation and confirmation dialog
- **Enhanced VPN/Proxy Statistics** — Statistics now show VPN user count with percentage (e.g., `🔒 VPN/Proxy (17%)`)
- **Rate Limit Status Indicator** — Real-time display in popup and options page showing API rate limit status

Tags

Lifestyle/social lifestyle/social

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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