Windscribe MV3 is an experimental extension that masks your physical location, circumvents censorship, and blocks ads and trackers

Latest Version

Version
4.0.4-beta
Update
December 9, 2024
Size
14.02MiB
Developer
windscribe.com
Category
Users
6,000+
Rating
4.54545 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Deutsch
English
English (UK)
Filipino
Français
Kiswahili
Nederlands
Norsk
Tiếng Việt
Türkçe
Català
Dansk
Eesti
Español
Hrvatski
Italiano
Latviešu
Lietuvių
Magyar
Polski
Português (Brasil)
Português (Portugal)
Română
Slovenský
Slovenščina
Suomi
Svenska
čeština
Ελληνικά
Српски
български
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עברית
فارسی‎
मराठी
हिन्दी
বাংলা
ગુજરાતી
தமிழ்
తెలుగు
ಕನ್ನಡ
മലയാളം
ไทย
‫العربية
中文 (简体)
中文 (繁體)
日本語
한국어
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Permissions
ActiveTab
ContextMenus
DeclarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
Privacy
Proxy
Notifications
Scripting
Storage
Tabs
WebRequest
WebRequestAuthProvider
Management
Alarms
Offscreen
UnlimitedStorage
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Windscribe - MV3 Experimental Extension

WARNING: THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL EXTENSION WHICH USES GOOGLE MANIFEST V3 APIS. IT HAS REDUCED FUNCTIONALITY RELATIVE TO THE ORIGINAL MV2 WINDSCRIBE EXTENSION. USE FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY.

Download the MV2 extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnmpcagpplmpfojmgmnngilcnanddlhb

MV3 Limitations:
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- No dynamic filtering.
- No per-site switches.
- No importing of third-party filter lists.
- No Element Picker.
- No strict-blocked pages.
- Filter lists only update when the extension updates.

Windscribe is a VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that work together to block ads, trackers, restore access to blocked content and help you safeguard your privacy online. Free plan provides 10 GB of data per month (if you confirm your email address), and the Pro plan has unlimited data and access to servers in over 134 cities in 69 countries.

Still not convinced? Perhaps this elegant list of features will convince you otherwise.

Browse Privately
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Governments block content based on your location. Corporations track and sell your personal data. Add Windscribe to your browser and take back control of your privacy.

Advanced Privacy Features
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Windscribe is not just a proxy extension. It's a suite of privacy tools which include:

* Ad Crusher - Ads, trackers, malware follow you around, waste your bandwidth and compromise your privacy/security. Windscribe will block all this crap.

* Social Blocking - Social networks are the biggest privacy invaders out there. Block their tracking widgets and buttons.

* Cookie Go Away - Blocks annoying \"We use cookies\" banners on all websites

* Whitelisting - Our block lists are not one size fits all. Customize your experience.

* Notification Blocking - Tired for sites asking you to send notifications? We are too. Enable this feature to never see those things again.

* WebRTC Blocking - Prevents WebRTC leaks that plague most proxy extensions and VPNs.

* Geolocation API Spoofing - Sites can request your GPS location why bypasses most proxies and VPNs. Not with Windscribe.

* Timezone Spoofing - Sites can detect that your IP doesn't match your browser's time zone. This feature solves this problem.

* User Agent Spoofing - Helps combat browser fingerprinting

* Language Spoofing - This feature will spoof your browser's language settings to match the proxy location of your choice.

* Worker Block - web workers from running in the background and collecting data.

* Ad Privacy - Disable ad topics, site-suggested ads, and ad measurement features enabled in Chrome.

Unlock content
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Windscribe VPN masks your IP address. This gives you unrestricted and private access to entertainment, news sites, and blocked content in over 69 different countries.

No identifying logs
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Your privacy is a right. We don’t track you. We don't sell your data to marketers, or even share it with anyone. We don’t keep logs that can deanonymize you.

Go beyond basic protection
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For comprehensive privacy protection even outside of the browser, use our desktop VPN applications (they’re also free). Available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Did we mention mobile? Yeah, there's mobile apps too.

We got your back
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Having issues with Windscribe VPN or want to suggest something? Send us a support ticket: https://windscribe.com/contact-support

Attributions:
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Ad-blocking functionality based upon uBlock Origin Lite.
Source code: https://github.com/Windscribe/browser-extension-mv3
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Source Manifest.json

{
"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
"manifest_version":3,
"version":"4.0.4",
"version_name":"4.0.4-beta",
"minimum_chrome_version":"105.0",
"name":"Windscribe - MV3 Experimental",
"short_name":"Windscribe - MV3 Experimental",
"description":"Windscribe MV3 is an experimental extension that masks your physical location, circumvents censorship, and blocks ads and trackers",
"background":{"service_worker":"backgroundScripts.js",
"type":"module"},
"action":{"default_popup":"popup.html",
"default_icon":"icon48.png"},
"permissions":["activeTab",
"contextMenus",
"declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess",
"privacy",
"proxy",
"notifications",
"scripting",
"storage",
"tabs",
"webRequest",
"webRequestAuthProvider",
"management",
"alarms",
"offscreen",
"unlimitedStorage"],
"optional_permissions":["contentSettings"],
"host_permissions":[""],
"icons":{"16":"icon16.png",
"48":"icon48.png",
"128":"icon128.png"},
"default_locale":"en",
"declarative_net_request":{"rule_resources":[{"id":"default",
"enabled":true,
"path":"/rulesets/main/default.json"},{"id":"alb-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/alb-0.json"},{"id":"bgr-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/bgr-0.json"},{"id":"chn-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/chn-0.json"},{"id":"cze-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/cze-0.json"},{"id":"deu-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/deu-0.json"},{"id":"fin-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/fin-0.json"},{"id":"fra-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/fra-0.json"},{"id":"grc-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/grc-0.json"},{"id":"hrv-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/hrv-0.json"},{"id":"hun-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/hun-0.json"},{"id":"idn-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/idn-0.json"},{"id":"ind-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/ind-0.json"},{"id":"irn-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/irn-0.json"},{"id":"isl-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/isl-0.json"},{"id":"isr-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/isr-0.json"},{"id":"ita-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/ita-0.json"},{"id":"jpn-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/jpn-1.json"},{"id":"kor-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/kor-1.json"},{"id":"ltu-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/ltu-0.json"},{"id":"lva-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/lva-0.json"},{"id":"mkd-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/mkd-0.json"},{"id":"nld-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/nld-0.json"},{"id":"nor-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/nor-0.json"},{"id":"pol-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/pol-0.json"},{"id":"rou-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/rou-1.json"},{"id":"rus-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/rus-0.json"},{"id":"spa-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/spa-0.json"},{"id":"spa-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/spa-1.json"},{"id":"svn-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/svn-0.json"},{"id":"swe-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/swe-1.json"},{"id":"tha-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/tha-0.json"},{"id":"tur-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/tur-0.json"},{"id":"vie-1",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/vie-1.json"},{"id":"block-lan",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/block-lan.json"},{"id":"dpollock-0",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/dpollock-0.json"},{"id":"adguard-spyware-url",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/adguard-spyware-url.json"},{"id":"annoyances-cookies",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/annoyances-cookies.json"},{"id":"annoyances-overlays",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/annoyances-overlays.json"},{"id":"annoyances-social",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/annoyances-social.json"},{"id":"annoyances-widgets",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/annoyances-widgets.json"},{"id":"annoyances-others",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/annoyances-others.json"},{"id":"stevenblack-hosts",
"enabled":false,
"path":"/rulesets/main/stevenblack-hosts.json"}]},
"storage":{"managed_schema":"managed_storage.json"},
"web_accessible_resources":[{"resources":["/web_accessible_resources/empty",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop.txt",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop.css",
"/web_accessible_resources/2x2.png",
"/web_accessible_resources/1x1.gif",
"/web_accessible_resources/32x32.png",
"/web_accessible_resources/nofab.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/hd-main.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/google-ima.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/popads.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/google-analytics_analytics.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/googlesyndication_adsbygoogle.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/amazon_apstag.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/doubleclick_instream_ad_status.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/google-analytics_cx_api.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/googletagservices_gpt.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/scorecardresearch_beacon.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/google-analytics_ga.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/addthis_widget.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/outbrain-widget.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/fingerprint2.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/amazon_ads.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop-vmap1.0.xml",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop-0.1s.mp3",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop.html",
"/web_accessible_resources/noop-1s.mp4",
"/web_accessible_resources/nobab2.js",
"/web_accessible_resources/click2load.html",
"/web_accessible_resources/noeval-silent.js"],
"matches":[""],
"use_dynamic_url":true}]}
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User reviews

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Cham Heck (ID: 0000002d1dbc2d7b) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 Google's MV3 supposedly hamstrung adblocking but this extension works with it. NICE.

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Matthew Minor (ID: 000000d4b6ef5773) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 Awesome extension.

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Unni Menon (ID: 000000b64126d74c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 Much speed, many locations, great satisfaction!

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Rebecca Rosenberg (ID: 000000f1035e732a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/02/2023 Nice!