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I believe because they're targeting users under 13. I also saw this and got very concerned, until I read the beginning but of the Privacy Policy. I'd love a clarification, say, that they don't somehow do this for adult users of the app.
> I believe because they're targeting users under 13. This. The average age of people who watch cooking shows is ~11.
What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.
people make comments like this often and it makes me wonder if you actually really need it, because you can very easily find several extensions that do just that. As an experiment, I copied your comment into google verbatim, and found exactly what you are looking for.
One bit of feedback I want to give is: when I'm answering questions on the iPhone app, there's a dialog that shoots up from the bottom... this is too much motion and I don't like it. Especially since there are multiple questions back-to-back, it feels a bit nauseating to see that dialog shoot up over and over.
I think a quick fade in (or no transition at all) may be better suited for that part of the app.
My options as a beginner are 'greek salad', 'spaghetti & meatballs', 'cheeseburger', 'deli sandwich', 'avocado toast'. Even on advanced it only added 'scrambled eggs', and 'tomato bisque'
To put it another way I found it very non-inclusive.
Not that I expect one app to teach me all the world's cuisine but it would be nice to at least acknowledge up front the bias of the app in its description?
There's nothing wrong with teaching these things but they are not the "beginning" things for a great many cultures including cultures in the USA itself. I doubt the kids of most parents of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, descent would start with these items.
Sorry if I'm not making any sense. I'm not trying to be negative. I'm just pointing out that the selection offered clearly shows a bias.
What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.
The only tedious part at this point is writing the different search crawlers for each site - some are reusable while others are not.
I had assumed that this would have been much more difficult, but after a weekend of writing the cheerio utils for pulling the recipes only from tasty or wprm tags, I found myself nearly done. The frontend and search engine tuning will take much longer.
It would be really cool if recipe sites could just include a recipe instead of a useless blog post punctuated by ads every 4 sentences, but these people clearly don't want me using their site in the "right" way. Oh well.
What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.
I am in the process of writing my own scraper for recipe sites that grabs only the recipes and parses them into a machine readable (searchable) format. Turns out you don't need much for parsing, because an incredibly large percentage of these sites use wordpress, and either the tasty recipes plugin or wprm (wordpress recipe maker) plugin. The only tedious part at this point is writing the different search crawlers fo…
An idea for the long-term future: I've often felt like cooking would be a perfect use case for very simple augmented reality. Often times my hands are messy while cooking, making it hard to deal with a book or smartphone. Also, recipes are often very time-sensitive. If I could see the ingredients/steps quickly, that'd be terrific. Better yet, it'd be nice to see a demo of what I am making, for things that are difficu…