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+# Kill Switch
+The "Kill Switch" is a system which allows the extension maintainer and some
+authorized people to remotely disable a specific feature which is misbehaving
+to everyone.
+
+This folder contains the code that the extension uses to interact with the Kill
+Swtich server to determine whether a feature should be disabled or not.
+
+## Explanation
+The kill switch mechanism works as follows:
+
+1. There's a dashboard available at https://twpt-dashboard.avm99963.com/. There,
+some authorized users can set some features to be disabled for everyone,
+according to some criteria (it might be specified that only some versions of the
+extension or some browsers are affected by this).
+1. When a feature is set from the dashboard as force disabled (what we call
+"enable a kill switch"), an entry is added to the server's database.
+1. Every 30 minutes, the extension queries the server behind the dashboard, to
+retrieve a list of force disabled features from the database.
+1. The extension processes this list, and if any of the features in the list
+apply to the extension according to the linked criteria, it force disables
+those. If, on the contrary, a feature which was force disabled is no longer
+force disabled, the previous status is restored.