hackernews-userscript
hoverzoom
| hackernews-userscript | hoverzoom | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 29 | |
| 11 | 1,834 | |
| - | 3.8% | |
| 5.7 | 9.2 | |
| over 1 year ago | 17 days ago | |
| Rust | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hackernews-userscript
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
A somewhat-shameless plug here, since I've released this just yesterday:
Browser Extension for Hacker News written in Rust WASM:
https://github.com/drakerossman/hackernews-userscript
- Show HN: Hacker News Userscript Written in Rust WASM – Filtering and Hiding
hoverzoom
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Google paid a $250K reward for a bug
People keep saying that. There are two problems with that, namely ① Google's own ads are easy to block using the new API and ② the new API is effective at blocking various evil attacks.
https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-ma... shows a ten-line ad blocker that blocks Google's ads, https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 is a list of polite email messages from people who'd like to have elevated access to browsers.
- Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer
- Hoverzoom: Zoom Images on Supported Websites
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Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).
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Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
> Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes "remotely hosted code." All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.
So the author can't think of any other reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates"
Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his app and basically perform a bait and switch and make it malicious.
- A Browser Extension developer on the temptations for monetization
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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
These type of offers are actually quite common. See this[0] and the discussion[1]. I try to stick with only the most popular of extensions in the hope that any malicious changes would be widespread news, but it is still a gamble.
[0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680
- Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer
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Uninstall the NightOwl macOS app now
As a maintainer of a semi-popular chrome extension[1], I receive so many buy-out offers that I started publicly collecting them[2] for everyone to see.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc...
[2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
- Hover zoom+ issues on reddit videos?
What are some alternatives?
red-box-outline - Chrome extension that toggles a red outline around every element on the page
ExtPay - The JavaScript library for ExtensionPay.com — payments for your browser extensions, no server needed.
CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chrome
drift - Easily add "zoom on hover" functionality to your site's images. Lightweight, no-dependency JavaScript.
score-extension-analytics - Analytics that Score uses
sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server