Extension-chrome Alternatives

extension-chrome reviews and mentions

• Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2023

  I'm satisfied with the transparency Mullvad has shown by publishing its 9 audits.[1] I also appreciate how Mullvad releases up-to-date source code for all of its software clients, which I consider a bare minimum for any VPN to even be considered.[2]

  Private Internet Access, on the other hand, does not release up-to-date source code for its software clients:

  - PIA Android client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest Google Play release v3.18.0 (Feb 22, 2023)[3]

  - PIA iOS client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest App Store release v3.20.0 (Mar 1, 2023)[4]

  - PIA desktop client: latest source release v3.3.0 (Feb 23, 2022) / v3.4.1-beta1 (Aug 18, 2022) vs. latest downloadable release v3.3.1 (unknown)[5]

  - PIA browser extension: latest source release v3.1.0 (May 31, 2021) vs. latest Chrome Web Store release v3.2.0 (March 8, 2022)[6]

  It's not clear to me how much of a say you still have in PIA's operations, but if you have any influence, I kindly ask you to direct them to release the source code of PIA's clients on time, every time a new client version is released. Having open source clients was the PIA's last claim to credibility after PIA was acquired by the former adware/malware distributor Kape Technologies.[7]

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  [1] Mullvad's audits: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/

  [2] Mullvad's GitHub repos: https://github.com/mullvad

  [3] PIA Android client - GitHub: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint... / Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint...

  [4] PIA iOS client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/vpn-ios/tags / App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vpn-by-private-internet-access...

  [5] PIA desktop client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/desktop/releases / PIA website: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/download/linux-vpn

  [6] PIA browser extension - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/extension-chrome/releases / Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/private-internet-a...

  [7] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612488

• Does browser extension support inverse bypass (to only run on specified websites)?
  1 project | /r/PrivateInternetAccess | 24 Feb 2023

  It required a bit of reverse engineering, but you can find the proxies for different regions here https://github.com/pia-foss/extension-chrome/blob/master/src/js/data/regions.json

• (Temporary) fix for the Chrome extension
  2 projects | /r/PrivateInternetAccess | 6 Mar 2021

  It helped when I found out that the extension actually is open source and described it plainly: https://github.com/pia-foss/extension-chrome/blob/b9165bc591cc2d3e1c74b653be9640572234d491/docs/public/release.md#update-region-data).

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