what-hn-says-webext VS netflix-skip

Compare what-hn-says-webext vs netflix-skip and see what are their differences.

what-hn-says-webext

Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. (by pinoceniccola)
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what-hn-says-webext netflix-skip
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3.2 0.0
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what-hn-says-webext

Posts with mentions or reviews of what-hn-says-webext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-06.

netflix-skip

Posts with mentions or reviews of netflix-skip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-29.
  • Show HN: See HN, Twitter discussions and posts mentioning the page you are on
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2021
    I gave up this fight back when I realized Twitch Now requires this permission, and that there are no other good extensions to show your twitch feed. https://i.imgur.com/d92BWVW.png

    It's basically "too good": an extension so convenient that I can't imagine living without it.

    One idea is to install the extension, unpack it, change the permission manifest, then "install unpacked." I did this when I fixed the netflix auto-skip extension (always skips intros and outros; saved me hours of Star Trek outro pain): https://github.com/shawwn/netflix-skip

    But I suspect that if you turn off those permissions for this extension, you'll just see it break, since it does need the ability to read data on the current site to then pull up twitter conversations about the site.

    It's a shame that "examine current url" isn't a separate permission from "modify all data on the site" though. And that read/write permissions aren't separate. I'd be much more inclined to let extensions read all sites I visit.

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