Ignore your own visits

A single localStorage flag on your machine. The script never writes it — you do.

The flag

devtools

localStorage.v5_ignore = '1'

On boot the script reads localStorage.v5_ignore inside a try/catch and returns if it is set. That is the only localStorage access. The collection manifest still reports local_storage: false because Vector 5 never writes an identifier there.

To resume counting, delete localStorage.v5_ignore and reload.

Staff and preview

Do not load the script on /admin, /studio, or CMS preview iframes.
Staging hostnames should be a separate site, or omitted from the dashboard.
The middleware never sees this flag — it only applies to v5.js.