friGate Light

friGate Light

Accelerates access to websites. Encrypts traffic.

What is friGate Light?
friGate Light is a Chrome extension that accelerates website access, encrypts traffic, and bypasses website blocks. It anonymously handles personal data, such as web browsing activity, to determine the availability of sites and enable/disable the proxy for them.
Merlin
Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2020-12-30 due to malware
Users: 570,846+
Rating: 4.38 (3,002)
Version: 2.68 (Last updated: 2020-05-19)
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • idle
  • cookies
  • webNavigation
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • unlimitedStorage
  • tabs
  • proxy
  • browsingData
  • storage
  • See more
Size: 1.69M
Price: Free
Stats date:

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Summary

Extension helps to go to blocked websites, encrypts the traffic, accelerates website access. Supports TOR (.onion) sites and EmerDNS

friGate Light encrypts your traffic and routes it through our secure VPN. No one will be able to identify, track you or sniff your traffic.

friGate is a Chrome/Firefox extension. It is an advanced analog of ZenMate, Stealthy, Hola and Browsec.

friGate extension anonymously handles personal or sensitive user data. These data include: web browsing activity. The data is used to determine the availability of the site that the user is currently accessing. Then, based on this data, the extension enables or disables the proxy for this site.

User reviews
Теперь ещё и с вируснёй - спасибо!

Это расширение -- вредоносное ПО. https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/534586/
by Roman Zabaluev Roman Zabaluev, 2020-12-29

Работает хорошо, но с недавних времён Dr.Web стал ругаться на троян в этом расширении "js.downloader.5684" возможно ложное срабатывание, но сколько лет пользовался этим расширением и антивирусом, не было такого.
by Yuri Buzhenko Yuri Buzhenko, 2020-12-28
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Safety
Risk impact

friGate Light is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install friGate Light if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

friGate Light is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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