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by dmooray 4973 days ago
This just sets up the browser to use a proxy,50.116.59.63 port 80, for those websites.
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Quote: "MediaHint.com is a provider of free of charge proxy server services that are accessible via MediaHint browser extensions"

As it says in the privacy policy, they are only proxy service providers. The add-ons are supposed to do just that, use their proxy.

So… this can't last very long can it ?
I don't think so. :)

Unless they constantly change their proxy's IP and play cat and mouse with the targeted websites. That is possible without user intervention because they use a self-hosted file (http://mediahint.com/default.pac) to setup the proxy through the use of their extension.