Censor Tracker
Censor Tracker is a censorship circumvention extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Yandex Browser
- Opera
- Brave
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Anticensorship
- Bypass Censorship
- Opera extension
- Microsoft Edge extension
- Network Tools
- Browser extension
- Website whitelisting
Tags
- censorship-resistance
- Proxy
- Censorship resistant
- Firefox Extension
- Google Chrome Extension
- censorship-circumvention
Censor Tracker News & Activities
Recent activities
- babsors liked Censor Tracker
POX removed Censor Tracker as alternative to SmartTube
Censor Tracker information
Developed by
Roskomsvoboda Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Alternatives
9 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Russian
AlternativeTo Categories
Web Browsers, Security & Privacy, Network & AdminGitHub repository
- 711 Stars
- 48 Forks
- 55 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Censor Tracker?
Censor Tracker provides a lot of useful features, here are the most important:
• Configurable proxy • Country-specific proxying • Custom proxying list • Censorship-resistant itself • Warns about websites that transfer data to third parties
Permissions
Censor Tracker requires the following permissions: • alarms to support periodic tasks • activeTab to detect IDO websites • management to be able to detect permission conflicts • notifications to show notifications • proxy to configure and use Censor Tracker proxy servers • scripting to inject content scripts into websites • storage to save preferences • unlimitedStorage to save the database of blocked websites • webNavigation for handling requests • http:/// and https:/// to proxy any website, retrieve the list of proxy servers, and detect the user's country
Requirements
Censor Tracker works with following versions of browsers: • Mozilla Firefox 98 or higher • Chromium (Google Chrome, Brave, Edge, Opera etc.) 94 or higher
Comments and Reviews
In Mozilla Firefox 130.0b3, Windows 10 version 4.1.1.0 of the extension reports "Allow the Extension to Work in Private Windows. So that we can open blocked sites for you through a proxy. In Firefox, there is no way without it" even after allowing access to this extension to private windows. The latest update in 2021-12 hints that the project is dead.