Reviews for Privacy Pass
Privacy Pass by Privacy Pass Team
Review by Geex
Rated 1 out of 5
by Geex, 3 months agoDoesn't work at all, and also prevents sites from working correctly. Trashcan
700 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bobby Wibowo, 5 days agoHas stopped working since the past few weeks. According to the people at GitHub it's indeed broken and will require fixing. Unfortunately there have been no Git commits ever since, so it might be an abandonware.
- Rated 1 out of 5by lamewater772, 21 days agoDoesn't work. Still stuck in the endless "Verify you're human" loop. I'm going crazy
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17863214, a month agoUseless now. hCaptcha dropped support and Cloudflare appears to have done so as well. Any site protected by Cloudflare just goes into an endless loop of "Are you human?". It's a sad state of the usability of the web that such a plugin is needed in the first place.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18106702, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ethcat, 3 months agoThis is how human browse the web today. It's not Privacy Pass, it's Human Pass.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Efiyo, 4 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14550105, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ali, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by nibba111, 10 months agoOne of those cases where I'd happily give a zero-star rating, but there is no such thing. I guess one star can be given for the intention behind. Some issues:
1. Stores passes in localStorage. Due to this they get cleaned up by automatic cleaning, always if the browser is in permanent private mode (Tor Browser). If you don't use permanent private mode, instead automatically cleaning history on exit, you can put moz-extension://ea706443-32b7-4727-b136-408bf93e5004/ in cleaning exceptions, which is very unintuitive.
My passes getting deleted was a big surprise the first time...
It was even reported in the issue tracker (https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension/issues/205), yet dismissed by the dev. Somehow storing that in localStorage is not a bug.
How would you like uBlock rules cleared on every launch?
2. Can't coin passes in Tor Browser.
3. Buggy if you disabled WASM.
4. No functionality for import/export. But you can do it through debugging extension in a web inspector. I guess this is where localStorage comes useful but it still sucks. See https://pastebin.com/EgruhFQc for functions.
5. If you managed to import passes via own js in Tor Browser, or you switched to Tor in a normal one, it won't fully redeem them. In case of hCaptcha, it mistrusts you after you uselessly redeem a pass or two. In case of Cloudflare, most important sites that I use don't get highlighted by the extension. Websites like ChatGPT, some manga websites and forums, enter an endless loop with rotating thing on a page that uses deceptive language like "checking if your connection is secure", despite obviously not checking out the connection, but me. I haven't yet encountered a cloudflared website I use a lot which supports this.
5.1. No visual indicators that it mistrusts you despite eating a pass. No indicators if it works generally beyond using devtools. No status messages.
6. Only 5 hCaptcha passes for one completion.
7. Given that Privacy Pass as a standard will combat pass hoarding by associating passes with metadata (see the latter part of https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-v3/), it's not very obvious why not just ditch tokens entirely and use registration with captchas (a la hCaptcha accessibility) to begin with. It's inevitable that you get rid of anonymity and stuff like that in order to not be frustrated with workarounds like this one. By registering with a captcha provider you might not need to redeem anything anymore, you can build trust in each internet-using biological platform on individual basis. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15397935, a year agoLooking at the reviews, it seems YMMV with this add-on. That said, I have noticed a significant drop in captchas for myself.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Anonymous user cb81e0, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by WildernessFamily, a year agoIt was easy to setup but it does not work. I just trying to sign into Discord and had to use hCaptcha even though I have 5 hcaptcha passes.
HOWEVER, that said, the reviews like from BoycottCF are grossly wrong. CloudFlare is awesome! Oh wait..let me guess, BoycottCF is...wait for it...Google, Hi Google! - Rated 5 out of 5by Taco, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by tinytankpu, a year agoDoes not work in Firefox. The Cloudflare captcha website always flags Firefox as a bot and won't ever let you complete a captcha to generate the passes.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dominik Adrian Grzywak, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by smow, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Chrys, a year agoEveryone should make an account to negatively review this fake solution to a problem cloud flare created. We're almost to worse than a bank but we can go further. I believe in you internet. if you need a hand, outlook is the best way to get a non phone numbered email nowadays.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17530926, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17517913, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17516387, a year agoконченая хуета, в рот ебала вашу защиту от дудос атак,пидоры
- Rated 5 out of 5by amin, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ramih Gill, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by cfj1986, a year ago