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Censor Tracker is a censorship circumvention extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

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Censor Tracker is a censorship circumvention extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

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Features

Censor Tracker provides a lot of useful features, here are the most important:

  • Configurable proxy
  • Country-specific proxying
  • Custom proxying list
  • Bypass censorship and restrictions (including DPI-filtration)
  • Warns about sites that transfer data to third parties

Development

Prerequisites

Make sure you have required versions of node and npm, which are:

  • node v17.4.0 or higher
  • npm 8.3.1 or higher

Optionally, you may like:

The build was tested only on the following operating systems:

  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • macOS Catalina v10.15.7

We don't guarantee that Censor Tracker will work on outdated versions of browsers, so make sure you're using the latest ones.

We've tested Censor Tracker on the following versions:

  • Mozilla Firefox 98 or higher
  • Google Chrome 94 or higher

Installation

Firstly, you will need to install dependencies:

~ npm install

Now you can build an extension for Chrome like this:

~ npm run build:chrome
~ cd dist/chrome

and for Firefox, like this:

~ npm run build:firefox
~ cd dist/firefox

Troubleshooting: If you're getting error on building an extension using npm, please make sure that your shell supports per-command environment variables (i.e something like this NODE_ENV=production npm run build:firefox:prod)

Going to production

You can build a production version of the extension for Chrome like this:

~ npm run build:chrome:prod
~ npm run release:chrome
~ cd release/chrome

and for Firefox like this:

~ npm run build:firefox:prod
~ npm run release:firefox
~ cd release/firefox

License

Censor Tracker is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.