Hidewalls

Begone Paywalls!

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By: Starnix
Users: 60 ▲ 2
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-01)
Creation date: 2024-04-01
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 11.19K

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Extension 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

Extension safety

Risk impact

Hidewalls requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hidewalls is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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