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Compare Chrome extensions: Pass the Plebs vs skyZIP™ Proxy

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Stats Pass the Plebs Pass the Plebs skyZIP™ Proxy skyZIP™ Proxy
User count 1,000+ 90,000+
Average rating 5.00 4.47
Rating count 16 1,364
Last updated 2020-02-04 2017-12-07
Size 125.95K 73.69K
Version 1.2.0 0.8.3
Short description
Adds Polyratings (and much more) to PASS! skyZIP™ acceleration and compression Proxy
Full summary

This tool adds many useful features, such as Polyratings integration, to PASS. It was created with the goal of simplifying the (stressful) registration process for Cal Poly students.

Features:

  • Polyrating and number of evaluations appear next to the instructor's name (if they exist)
  • Background behind the instructor's name changes color corresponding to their rating
  • Click on any teacher's name to see their full Polyratings page (if it exists)
  • Search Polyratings for teachers and classes from the Chrome search bar (keyword is 'rating')
  • Options to gray out or hide classes that are closed, cancelled, conflict with your schedule, or have STAFF listed as the instructor
  • Checkbox at the top of each class list to select/unselect all classes at once
  • Click on any section header to toggle showing/hiding the course description
  • Errors list is now part of the sidebar instead of on top of the class listings

For those interested, source can be found here: https://github.com/timstoddard/PassThePlebs

skyZIP browser extension is perfect for anonymous internet access like a VPN service and can do even more and faster.

skyZIP can reduce data usage by using high performance proxy servers to optimize webpages. Data savings are at about 50%

Many web-sites are not optimized – but skyZIP is transcoding images to WebP lossless format, resulting images are 80% smaller.

Content compression – deleteting of unnecessairy information in HTML, Javascript and CSS resources which are not essential combined with gzip compression is resulting in bandwdith savings for the users and operator.

The use of an optimized protocol which is also the basis for HTTP/2.0 is in use between your browser and the Proxy server farm. Multiplexing multiple request and response streams in parallel over a single TCP connection which is reducing TCP handshake overhead for multible requests, higher throughput by removing TCP slow-start phase – increase of loading speed of webpages on already TCP accelerated environments is about 100% on non TCP accelerated systems up to 1000%

Secure connections (HTTPS) are routed from your browser to the destination by saving one roundtrip per DNS request. DNS lookups are performed by Proxy Servers, no need for the Browser to wait for responses. – this is also reducing cpu load on the modem.

Harmful webpages are blocked automatically in our Datacenter – will safe bandwidth, increase speed, will keep your computer away from phising web-sites

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