Hidewalls

Hidewalls

Begone Paywalls!

Hidewalls
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By: Starnix
Users: 19 ▲ 1
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-01)
Creation date: 2024-04-01
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 11.19K
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Summary

An extension that allows you to use hidewall.io to quickly bypass paywalls.

What this does is read the current URL, and then opens a new tab to take you to https://hidewall.io/yeet?y=$URL, where $URL is what is read from your current tab.

This extension, and the hidewall.io site are all open source, and may be inspected at: https://github.com/sashakarcz/hidewall

Safety
Risk impact

Hidewalls is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hidewalls may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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