v1.0.1

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

Version submitted to Chrome Webstore

Changes

• Removed "tabs" permission

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

About

r00ts traces your web browsing to the data centers behind it.

The internet doesn't live in the cloud. It lives in specific places: real buildings with real addresses that sit on land, draw power from a grid, and often pull water from local supplies, with people living right next to them.

Want to find out where your internet lives? Install r00ts, visit any site, and see the data centers your session likely passes through, some might be near you, others a world away. For each one, we show the clues we followed to land on that specific building, so you can run the same kind of investigation yourself.

Our hope: to connect the dots between the brilliant journalism and activism about data centers and the everyday, abstracted way we all use them.

r00ts is private by design, free and open source. Made by AIxDESIGN for anyone curious about the material reality behind their screen, students, journalists, designers, organizers, and the plain nosy.

Made with support from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, through the Grounding the Cloud open call.

v1.0.0

Full Changelog: v0.13...v1.0.0

Version submitted to Chrome Store

Changes

• Clicking on the datacenter marker opens r00ts.xyz with the highlighted already datacenter focused

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.13

Full Changelog: v0.12...v0.13

Pre-release before v1.0 and submission to Chrome WebStore

Changes

• submit on view on by default
• refactor code
• more explicit summary text when datacenters cannot be found

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.12

Full Changelog: v0.11...v0.12

Fixes

• CTA banner shown on any update to results

Improvements

• Slight canvas rendering performance improvement

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.11

Full Changelog: v0.10...v0.11

Improvements

• more robust IP and hostname parsing/checking
• remove scrollbars on Chromium browsers

Fixes

• fixed outdated facilities being kept between page visits

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.10

Full Changelog: v0.9...v0.10

New Features

• opt-in "Submit on view" option to automatically submit results to the community database

Improvements

• updated icons
• added license text
• updated attribution
• updated styles

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.9

Full Changelog: v0.8...v0.9

Improvements

• close popup when visiting r00ts.xyz from extension
• map style matches website
• more robust hostname parsing
• avoids querying reserved or IPv6 addresses

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.8

Full Changelog: v0.7...v0.8

Improvements

• More glyph rendering optimisations, matches r00ts-website
• Sharper glyphs on HiDPI displays
• Skips querying IPv6 and reserved address

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.7

Full Changelog: v0.6...v0.7

Improvement

• Significantly improved map rendering speed

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome

v0.6

Full Changelog: v0.5...v0.6

Features

• Attribution hidden behind button
• Map and Marker style matches r00ts-website
• Added new fonts
• Extension removes the download button on r00ts-website

Improvements

• Fixed stability issues with multiple tabs
• Fixed glyph rendering columns offset

Installation

Download and extract the ZIP archive for your browser, then:

• Firefox: visit about:debugging in the address bar, click "This Firefox", "Load Temporary Add-on..." and select manifest.json in r00ts-extension-firefox
• Chrome: visit chrome://extensions/ in the address bar, enable "Developer mode" with the toggle in the top right, click "Load unpacked" and select r00ts-extension-chrome