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Windscribe Browser Extension

Source code of the Windscribe Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. This extension aims to improve user privacy by implementing the following features:

  • Proxy data via the Windscribe network
  • Block Ads, Trackers and Malware (powered by uBlock Origin)
  • Block Social network widgets and buttons
  • Block website notification spam
  • Remove 1st/3rd Party Cookies on tab close
  • Rotate User-Agent
  • Spoof Browser Location API
  • Spoof Timezone
  • Spoof Locale
  • Disable WebRTC
  • Disable Javascript Service Workers

Build Instructions

yarn cache clean && yarn install
cd modules/ext && cp .env.schema .env && cd ../..
yarn workspace ws-api-client build
yarn workspace ext build

Further documentations can be found here:

Attributions

All client side blocking functionality is courtesy of Raymond Hill's uBlock Origin project

The blocklists used by the various blocking features are sourced from: