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The extension supports Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. [3] Bypass Paywalls Clean was published on the Add-ons for Firefox website until a DMCA takedown notice was leveled against the Firefox extension in February 2023. [6] Due to a conflict with Google's rules, Bypass Paywalls Clean is not published on the Chrome Web Store. [3]
ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services. [5] [6] [7] It achieves this with a series of patches applied to the Chromium codebase during the compilation process. The result is functionally similar to regular Chromium. [8] [9]
uBlock Origin (/ ˈ j uː b l ɒ k / YOO-blok [5]) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.The extension is available for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera).
Manifest V3 is intended to modernize the extension architecture and improve the security and performance of the browser; it adopts declarative APIs to "decrease the need for overly-broad access and enable more performant implementation by the browser", replaces background pages with feature-limited "Service Workers" to reduce resource usage ...
HTTPS Everywhere was inspired by Google's increased use of HTTPS [8] and is designed to force the usage of HTTPS automatically whenever possible. [9] The code, in part, is based on NoScript's HTTP Strict Transport Security implementation, but HTTPS Everywhere is intended to be simpler to use than No Script's forced HTTPS functionality which requires the user to manually add websites to a list. [4]
Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code, while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code). The most popular browser, Google Chrome, has over 100,000 extensions available but stopped supporting plug-ins in 2020.
A headless browser is a web browser without a graphical user interface. Headless browsers provide automated control of a web page in an environment similar to popular web browsers, but they are executed via a command-line interface or using network communication.
Lantern is a free and open source [4] internet censorship circumvention tool that operates in some of the most extreme censorship environments, such as China, Iran, and Russia. [5]