Browser extension
Without help, a browser is a blind spot: hours of “Chrome” with no idea which sites. The Vetroscope extension fixes that by telling the desktop app which site is active and what media is playing.
What it adds
Section titled “What it adds”- Time per website — your browser time is split by website, each with its own icon, instead of one big browser total. In Firefox (and browsers based on it, like Zen) and on Windows, the extension is the only way to see time per website.
- Web media — YouTube, Netflix, Spotify Web, SoundCloud and any other site playing audio or video is tracked as background time, with proper titles, down to each video or song. Background tabs count too, as long as Track music is on. Media is credited to the browser it’s actually playing in, so Brave, Vivaldi, and Chrome stay separate.
- Media links — with Capture media links on (Settings → Activity Tracking), each tracked video or song keeps its link, so you can reopen it from your history.
Private by design
Section titled “Private by design”The extension talks to exactly one thing: the Vetroscope app on your computer. It makes no internet connections — nothing is sent to any server, there’s no account, and it does nothing at all when the desktop app isn’t running. Its code isn’t scrambled, so anyone who wants to can read exactly what it does.
The nudge
Section titled “The nudge”If Vetroscope notices you using a browser that doesn’t have the extension, it shows a one-time message — “Install the Vetroscope browser extension for full tracking” — with a Get the extension button for your browser, and a Don’t show again if you’d rather not.
Next: install it for your browser.