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Disable Topics API

by WP Chill · Privacy & Consent

Also makes 27 other plugins · 405.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

Disables Google's Topics API tracking for your website's visitors by adding a 'Permissions-Policy' HTTP header.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 85/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

87 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 96/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+58% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

90

now · peak 205

9030d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Disable Topics API · #11011 you GA Google Analytics · #149 Simple Universal Goo · #3656 Super Simple Google · #4608

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

300per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

7mo ago

latest release · v1.3

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3 · 7mo ago1.2 · 4.6y ago1.1 · 5.4y ago1.0 · 5.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 96%
v1.2 3.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈390

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-02-27 · 1,381 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
7mo ago
Added
2021-04-15 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
4.9
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 6 reviews to 2021-06-04
Positive PraiseOnboardingCompatibility

Reviewers are happy across the board, calling it a quick fix for FLoC that installs with no settings and works fine on different hosts.

Recent reviews

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  1. Bianca
    5.2y ago

    Thanks Roy for making the internet a little bit better.

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  2. kOoLiNuS
    5.3y ago

    I’m installing this plugin over a bunch of sites on many different hosting providers. So far has worked flawlessly.

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  3. georg
    5.4y ago

    If you do not want to use a plugin, just add the following lines to your function.php function disable_floc($headers) { $headers['Permissions-Policy'] = 'interest-cohort=()'; return $headers; } add_filter('wp_headers', 'disable_floc');

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  4. Deborah Edwards-Onoro
    5.4y ago

    After reading about Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), I knew I wanted my site pages excluded from FLoC analysis. Thanks for making this so easy to implement. Added your plugin to my site this morning, confirmed the setting, and it’s good to go.

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  5. Chris Wiegman
    5.4y ago

    While I hope to see this in WordPress core soon, this is a great alternative.

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  6. Martijn Geerdes
    5.4y ago

    urgently needed solution, easy install, no settings

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 11 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%
Dutch 100%
Dutch (Belgium) 100%
German 100%
Romanian 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Swedish 100%
Italian 80%
Spanish (Spain) 80%
German (Formal) 60%
Portuguese (Portugal) 60%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-11-29 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-27 300+ → 400+ up after 7 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-20 400+ → 300+ down after 15 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-05 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-02 400+ → 300+ down

Competes with

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