# WAZ-

> Disables the paywall on online services of Funke Medien Gruppe NRW. In particular on WAZ, NRZ, WP, WR and IKZ.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/waz-](https://chrome-stats.com/d/waz-)

## Overview

- **ID:** `waz-`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** dywoiekzfxezf
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2020-04-04
- **First published:** 2020-04-04
- **Size:** 15 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/waz-/)

## Description

WAZ- is a Firefox add-on that disables the paywall on online services of Funke Medien Gruppe NRW. It particularly targets WAZ, NRZ, WP, WR, and IKZ. The add-on reverts the Caesar cipher based 'encryption' and prevents scripts from tinypass.com from being loaded.

## Rankings

- #37,198 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `https://www.waz.de/*`
- `https://www.nrz.de/*`
- `https://www.wp.de/*`
- `https://www.wr.de/*`
- `https://www.ikz-online.de/*`
- `https://*.tinypass.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.waz.de`
- `www.nrz.de`
- `www.wp.de`
- `www.wr.de`
- `www.ikz-online.de`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/waz-)