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Exclude your own visits
Open your site once with ?pl_ignore=1, or use the switch in Settings → Exclusions, and your browser stops sending visits to ProductLense.
Your own visits to your site, while you test a page or check a deploy, would otherwise count like anyone else's. ProductLense lets you switch them off per browser, with no code change.
Turn it on
Either:
- In the ProductLense dashboard, open the site's Settings → Exclusions and turn on Ignore my visits on this browser. It opens your site in a new tab once, which sets the flag.
- Or open any page of your site with
?pl_ignore=1added to the address, such ashttps://example.com/?pl_ignore=1.
The script stores pl_ignore = "true" in that browser's local storage for your site and removes the parameter from the address bar. From then on nothing is sent from that browser: no pageviews, no events and no identify.
The setting lives in one browser on one device. Do it again in every browser, profile and device you use, and on each of your sites' domains.
Turn it off
Open your site with ?pl_ignore=0, or turn the switch off in Settings → Exclusions. Clearing your browser's site data for your domain also removes it.
Check it works
- Open your site with
?pl_ignore=1. - Open the ProductLense dashboard's Live page in another tab.
- Click around your site: no visitor from you appears.
Other ways
| Method | Scope |
|---|---|
?pl_ignore=1 or the switch | One browser, all pages of the site |
| IP exclusions in Settings → Exclusions | Everyone on an office or VPN IP address, dropped on the server |
data-exclude | Paths such as /admin/*, for every visitor |
window.__pl_disable = true before the script | One page, set from your own code |
The script also sends nothing on localhost unless you add data-dev="true", and nothing from automated browsers.