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Throttle Block

Developer Tools — Test drive the new internet — Throttle Block is a parody, delivered via a Chrome extension, to i…
Developer Toolsest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
21
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
21 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 21 probesavg response 825 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Throttle Block's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
What The Duckdev-toolssimilar100%40.0+7.2● live
CookiesOKdev-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Tree Style Tabsproductivitytag-overlap100%— unverified
Millennials to Snake Peopledev-toolssimilar100%40.00.0● live
Blockstack Browserdev-toolssimilar100%21.40.0→ redirected
Meerkat Chrome Extensionproductivitytag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
PeerFastdev-toolssimilar83%40.0+32.0● live
LGBT Bookmarkletdev-toolssimilar83%0.0-8.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:24Z574unknown
2026-08-14 12:21Z1497unknown
2026-08-09 19:04Z1191unknown
2026-08-08 04:08Z192unknown
2026-07-30 20:20Z441unknown
2026-07-26 17:01Z383unknown
2026-07-18 13:46Z103unknown
2026-07-13 13:34Z128unknown
2026-07-04 15:40Z1178unknown
2026-07-03 00:18Z2312unknown
2026-06-24 10:33Z630unknown
2026-06-22 13:02Z1042unknown
2026-06-21 00:38Z967unknown
2026-06-20 00:28Z910unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Throttle Block · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/throttle-block · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.