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X-Posed: Account Location & Device Info by Alexander Hagenah

See where X users are located and what devices they use. Country flags & device icons next to every username. Optional geo-blocking.

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📝 Changelog

[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
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Permissions and data

Required permissions:

  • Access your data for sites in the x.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the twitter.com domain

Optional permissions:

  • Access your data for sites in the x.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the twitter.com domain
  • Access your data for x-posed-cache.xaitax.workers.dev

Data collection:

  • The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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Version
2.5.0
Size
93.81 KB
Last updated
2 months ago (Jan 28, 2026)
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