Detour
by Mathieu Mafille more by this developer →
#240,789 of 263,655 by installs on Chrome · #18,851 of 20,258 in make chrome yours
First seen by this census 09/01/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 08/23/2026
Tracked since 09/01/2026
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Category: make chrome yours / privacy
Languages: English (United States)
Description
Switch HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS proxy profiles from your toolbar, with auto-switch rules, health checks, failover, auth, and bypass.
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Growth
Change in installs. This store publishes the count rounded to one or two significant figures, so it does not move when the listing grows - it moves when the rounding rolls over. The figures below are therefore what was actually observed between the two crawls named in "measured over", not scaled to the window, and the percentage is of that same rounding step - so a small listing crossing a bucket shows a very large one. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | -1 | — | -1 | 1.1 days |
| week | 0 | — | 0 | 7.4 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
History
Users
Permissions
Access level: Extensive — Reaches every website you visit, and holds a powerful capability as well.
- Reads and changes your data on all websites
- Control how your browser connects to the internet, including routing traffic through other servers
- See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
- Answer login prompts from websites and proxies on your behalf
Ad blockers, password managers and VPNs need this kind of access to do their job. This describes what the extension can reach, not how it behaves.
Manifest V3
Reads and changes your data on all websites ⚠
- alarms — Schedule its code to run at a later time
- proxy ⚠ — Control how your browser connects to the internet, including routing traffic through other servers
- storage — Save its own settings and data locally
- webRequest ⚠ — See the web requests your browser makes, including URLs you visit
- webRequestAuthProvider ⚠ — Answer login prompts from websites and proxies on your behalf