Reviews & Comments of Privacy Pass chrome extension
From July 4th, 2021 to March 13th, 2023, 11% user give 5-star rating, 8% user give 4-star rating, 5% user give 3-star rating, 6% user give 2-star rating, 71% user give 1-star rating. for Privacy Pass chrome extension.
Reviews of privacy pass:
Doesn't work and breaks some sites.
Used to work but not anymore. it also block some website from loading after complete cloudflare secure connection check (pcpartpicker my case): [ This page has been blocked by an extension Try disabling your extensions. ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT ] have to disable all extension to find this one, super annoying.
fasten verify... thanks
Does not work, solved captcha after captcha but no passes gained
Edited review: Appears to work! Opened an issue on GitHub to combat the issue I was having now that I've identified the cause.
This is a truly terrible development -- on some web sites I now have to complete a Captcha and if it is of the type provided by this extension I simply cannot move past select all buses or boats It simply keeps recycling AND apparently I have to enable Screen Time, which I refuse to use, if I want to whitelist a site. You folk are clearly imposing your desire to make money on my desire to continue to browse with ease. I do not need or want your intrusion.
I installed it hoping I will not face cloudflare issue. At start it worked correctly after getting some passes it worked perfectly but for some reasons one of my usual sites is getting blocked by the privacy pass extension every time I try to open it ... It just shows <website name> is blocked..This page has been blocked by an extension Try disabling your extensions. ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT... After disabling privacy pass it works fine for few refresh and then again it starts showing the above error... It's very frustrating to do it again and again.. Devs please check on this and solve it ty... website on which i faced this issue : https://dragontea.ink/
working fine for me after I whitelisted "captcha.website" in my pihole
pathetic
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Totally a waste of time, does not work!!!
It works great for me
Absolute rubbish.
At first I thought it wasn't working till I realised that it makes you go through the captcha process on purpose to create 30 passes. It sorted out my problem straight away after that.
It Sucks!!!
Doesn't work at all on stupid sites that preventing me to use their services... I'm on linux, all my devices on linux and some android and all of them without viruses....
While it worked, it was very good. 30 passes are generated by doing a captcha and then the each captcha after that is blocked, using up a single pass, so you have to do much fewer captcha tests. However, about a month into use, it stopped letting me access sites after the captcha, stating "This page has been blocked by an extension". I have uninstalled and reinstalled it, but there has been no change. It's a shame because it really is a good extension, definitely 5 stars if this issue was fixed.
This extension does not work
Does do anything. It seems to be doing nothing. Already for this reason it looks like it got only developed for collecting data.
i've used it for years, it works fine for Cloudflare but i can't remember a single time that it has ever worked for hCaptcha
OMG how could something have so many bugs for so long! Irritating af
it just instaled it self on my computer
I only installed to say how much i hate this
hCaptcha not working.
It very convenient to use and very useful to our compatriot. it is necessary to have this app
does not work as it says it does, fake app. Stay away from this one
Do not work at ALLLLLLL
Used to work, now it's useless....!
doesn't work, need to keep selecting pictures of boats, trains and buses like i'm some 3 year old thanks for ruining the internet though, wasn't bad enough already
This did work, stopped recently, around the time of the 3.0.1 update. captcha.website works, until after performing the captcha, then the redirect fails.
Used to be amazing, now it just doesn't work.
Can't even get into the website to get passes because of cloudflare.
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, when it works its great! but when it doesn't it's frustrating, to get more passes you will need to do the captcha's at https://captcha.website/ sometimes it gives you more passes, sometimes it moves you to a website for some reason
It does not work at all
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Does not work. Clicking "get more passes" takes you to https://captcha.website/, forces you to solve like three captchas just to get to a broken page talking about the concept and you get no actual passes. Great stuff.
Doesn't work. Won't give me passes, and the very idea is stupid. I know my computer isn't infected, I'm not an idiot clicking ad-links and my computer is scanned daily. Now if only cloudflare would stop being a moron.
Complete junk. Does nothing useful.
It doesn't even work. I installed it in the hopes of quickly getting through Cloudflare's stupid and slow hCaptcha. I went to hCaptcha's website to get passes, it didn't work. Went to Cloudflare's ANNOYING Captcha Page, it won't even load. FINE, I said, so I went to the website I frequently visit with a Cloudflare Captcha Block to get the passes there, solved the infuriatingly specific object to select, done. Cloudflare redirects me to the homepage but I GOT NO PASSES ADDED TO THE EXTENSION. ABSOLUTE GARBAGE.
I installed this because I'm always having to click on buses, trains, traffic lights etc to get to forums so i can find answers to my (mostly) automotive problems. After installing this, I'm still clicking on buses, trains, traffic lights etc (and feeding the AI). It's rubbish. I installed this a second time to write this review. Off to deleting now
Thanks guys
It doesn't seem to work properly on Windows. And when i search google and display the search results, if i press Enter to repeat the same search, the extension redirects the page to a non resolving address (searchvalidation.com). Don't know why it does that, but after i disabled the extension the problem is solved. I am simply removing this stupid hijacking extension from Chrome!....
Completely worthless. I installed this because Cloudflare's hCaptcha virtual cops started harassing me to prove my humanity every time I click a link. When I click on Privacy Pass it tells me I have 0 passes and excitedly tells me to "Get more passes!" So I guess hosting services, who charge for hosting, are now trying to extort bribes from users for hassle free access to hosted content? Oh, and I can't even "Get more passes!" because that function seems to be broken.
Only works for cloudflare not hcaptcha
Seemed to work for a few days but I daily get full screens that won't let me onto the site unless I pass a complicated captcha. These screens block the entire site and recommend *this* extension at the bottom to be able to avoid these screens. It just doesn't work and it's a merry-go-round of pain-in-the-a$$.
does not work
The Cloudflare captcha seems to work, but the hCaptcha writes N/A in the corresponding counter and that's it.
The worst extension, not working at all, keep asking me to solve captcha, it make me don't wanna access to those websites anymore!
This couldn't have been more useless, cheap cloudflare protection flag me half the time and get stuck on verification and i can't access some sites i used this and it did nothing at all.
Doesn't achieve what it's trying to do... therefore it's broken and should be removed/repaired. There are 2 issues - the site I an trying to reach needs to remove this service because it doesn't work. Cloudflare needs to fix this service because it doesn't work - constant looping through the captcha process.
works perfectly
90% of the time it doesn't work
Obviously, most ppl hate this app. I can do without the headache
Every Review Is Both Worthless and Valuable Executive summary: Privacy Pass works as expected. Once all reviews are taken in at 35,000 feet, they tell the better, more clear story. Twelve reviewers may have given poor reviews with one star, but when there are forty-five total reviews, three quarters of the reviews are positive. Anyone reading only the negative reviews would think things are broken when those reviews giving one star are just wearing blinders, they're hyper-focused on their little, broken install and haven't taken a 35,000 foot view of everything going on, nor have they read all the other reviews. They're looking for instant fixes—instant fixes that aren't happening for them—and so they're being triggered to leave a knee-jerk, negative review. Personally, thank Hatebook-Facebook for that behavior. Every computer and mobile device is its own, unique environment. If an extension doesn’t work, 98% of the time it's due to that device’s configuration—not something that’s wrong with the extension. We forget that all too easily. Negative reviews can deceive, can distract, can hide what the real problem is. An impatient reviewer is a bad person to write a review, unless they disclose how impatient they are, but if they *DID* disclose their impatience, I probably wouldn't be taking their review as being a credible review *because of their impatience,* since impatience is a poor foundation for just about everything. When I installed Privacy Pass on mine, it initially didn't work, until I figured out why it didn't work, and then it did. I had to 1) read the supporting documents, 2) restart my browser, 3) click the icon a few times, and although I don't really understand its guts or what's happening in its implementation, it started working. It's interesting to note that a lot of bad, poor, negative reviews come from those who don't have the patience to go into detail about what didn't work, and then how eventually they did get it to work. Impatient reviewers rarely take time to investigate and fix what’s amiss. They rarely take time to explain how and what they tried to do to fix it, explain how they fixed it and in doing so may have helped others to get theirs working so they could share their patience and expertise. No, the knee-jerk, negative review usually wins out. How sad. For the negative reviewers out there, go back and read how your review fits into the overall distribution of reviews. I don't expect most people will go back and look at the wake of all reviews left, even though there's data there for each reviewer, once you understand what that actual data is; it's truly a hidden gem. That distribution of reviews—as well as your becoming aware of how your review fits into that distribution—that distribution and awareness combination are and is telling you something. It's telling *everyone* something about you. It's a learning opportunity for you, if you choose to come back, read *my* review, look back at all the other reviews, see the distribution, and understand at a different level what you may have been missing all along by *not* seeing the 35,000 foot view. Pass this on. Warm regards.
imbes na maalis yung captcha dagdag pa to nanghihingi din ng catptcha lolz, naknamputcha. uninstalled arleady.
Doesn't work... Still need to fill captchas.
Does not work on chrome.
Does not work. Submitted an abuse report from the overview page for misrepresentation. Hopefully chrome will remove their publishing rights unless they fix it.
Does not work. After going to a site (on my home network) where I know I always have to enter a capcha, first checking "I am human" and then picking the correct pictures in 2 rounds of squares, the extension shows "0 Passes" meaning it didn't add this site to it's checked items. I don't know what's it doing here, it's totally useless.
This BS isn't working... Never needed it before... now i am being blocked from stuff i need to do and it's not working
The plugin won't even let me pass the "I am not a robot" page. It keeps redirecting me to the security page.
Useless, just like Cloudflare.
i just want to say F u to cloudflare for making captchas on everyone using their services
Utterly useless and does more harm than good. Seems sketchy as hell.
I tried accessing this particular site 5 times before installation, but it hadn't work, until I installed this extension. When I tried it for the sixth time, I was expecting disappointment, but it worked wonder! Hooray~~! Now, gotta get back to work (thought I'd share this little discovery and provide some feedback to those who thought this didn't work). Good day everyone~
Doesn't work
Doesn't work at all.
It doesn't work most of the time.
HCaptcha works!
No noticeable difference with it than without it. I still have to prove I'm not a robot.
This works fine its just that you all are using it wrong. you have to click the Extension button at the top corer then click Privacy Pass, THEN you can use it
Doesn't do what it says it can do. Absolutely useless!
This may be the most useless extension I ever added to Chrome. I only re-added it to write this review and now I am removing it again.
absolutely garbage
Alright so it actually works but you need to take the test again. In the second attempt it will ask if "I am a robot" so I clicked it, but then I took me 1-5 clicks (without a test) just to verify that I am a robot. After that you can return back to the website.
Don't bother. It doesn't work. I have 14 cloudflare passes and 5 hcaptcha but I still can't get out of that effing annoying hcaptcha loop. Incompetent developers.
it doesn't work at all. waste of time
Not working
Cloudflare works perfectly, love it. Was bombarded with captchas before. Now only one captcha and I don't have to do the next 24 times. Sadly the hCaptcha one doesn't work all the time, and only gives 5 passes at once which gets used up quick.
Terrible extension, doesn't work. Cloudflare is S***, so tired of having to go through their BS captchas. They're the worst.
Short answer: doesn't work Long answer: don't waste your time with it
doesn't work
Doesn't work for sh
Does not work
Doesn't work. Reload page using PP and still get prompted for stupid captcha.
It doesn't do shyat. It's a ducking fake tool.
Absolute rubbish! It doesn't work and the instructions are incomprehensible. Sites which require the use of this extension will be deleted from my bookmarks.
I use version 2.0.9 and it works perfectly. Once you add the extension, you have to click on the extension and "Add more passes" which takes you to a Captcha page. Once you pass that Captcha, it kind of baselines or proves that you are a real person and is activated. A quick YouTube search brings up several videos that clearly explain what I'm talking about, or here's a 3 minute YouTube video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn1ygWSLyzo
Bruh this doesn't even work seriously i tried using it but nothing actually happened I was still on the SAME SCREEN i tried activated it but nothing happens really DO NOT waste your time on this doesent even work....
Little confusing how to use it but if you are good at guesswork you'll have a decent experience. It often skips having to choose random images and you just have to click "I am human" on Cloudflare sites. Sometimes not. Also, if you have a message that this site is protected from attacks, click on the the Privacy Pass icon and click on Cloudflare and the sites magically appear normally, though most the use this protection are on the other side of the world and will never fully load the desired results.
Can't even get past the "checking your browser" screen. EDIT 7/28/21 - Is this abandonware? All the 4 & 5 star reviews pretty much stop after 2018.
Does not work at all, I Still need to prove I'm not a robot...
Dear cloudflare, Thank you for making the internet garbage
Works with very few bugs. This project doesn't get enough credit that it deserves!
Doesn't work
Doesn't work. Verification pages still appears despite having available passes.
Never worked. I have 25 passes but I still see verification page.
Just plain does not function as described at all.
Works fine, however no option to disable spending passes if i only want to earn them for now.
Doesn't work. Waste of time.
Waste of time, Doesn't work !!
This extension save my time.Really apreciate to developer.