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I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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Interesting, I find it useful. A couple of features you could think about: 1. Is there a feature to create a "pull request" to the collection maintainer to propose adding some extensions to their collection? Otherwise, there would be several public shared collections for the same use-case and it may become scattered. 2. I'd like to be able to favorite / like / star a collection, and that to be used as a signal to sea…

Thank you for the feedback. I will add it to the roadmap.

Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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I found it more trustworthy to code my own extensions via ChatGPT. These are the last 2 ones. I pretty much dont care if people use them, as the mostly fulfill my own usecases. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/comparative-chatgpt... https://thisismy.franzai.com/ The cost of (small) software is fast approaching 0, and it can be faster now to code your own solution, instead of looking for one that nearly mostly…

Haha exactly! Except I didnt bother to publish mine on chromewebstore, it's just on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/natural_aliens/geminiwrap_plugin ...it makes Gemini-Chat voice dictation a bit more useful. My other one, the remove-youtube-shorts, is almost an one-liner, so I didnt even publish it it's too trivial I think. Everyone just make your own!

I'm gonna need the remove youtube shorts one

Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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Which of your single use extensions was causing you to like things on Facebook?

Tons of them. Custom download page, to avoid seeing the old ugly Chrome'a download shelf at the bottom of the screen.

> Tons of them. Custom download page, to avoid seeing the old ugly Chrome'a download shelf at the bottom of the screen.

Just to make sure—you seem to be replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493152, which currently says:

> Which of your single use extensions was causing you to like things on Facebook?

Are you saying tons of your single-use extensions caused this Facebook liking, and a custom download page was one of them? Or was this meant to be a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492881?

(Or maybe something's wrong with parent links today. For me, on the main page, they are now turning into anchored links that don't seem to go where intended, which wasn't happening yesterday.)

Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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Sigh, and I was just thinking about installing it. Time to find another one, or perhaps it will also fall to Goodhart’s Law.

I’d really like to know what exactly you are looking for? There is no such thing as “free” and no browser extension will give you something for free. You are paying, one way or the other…

I want to see and/or collect discount codes for things

Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sigh, and I was just thinking about installing it. Time to find another one, or perhaps it will also fall to Goodhart’s Law.

I’d really like to know what exactly you are looking for? There is no such thing as “free” and no browser extension will give you something for free. You are paying, one way or the other…

> I’d really like to know what exactly you are looking for? There is no such thing as “free” and no browser extension will give you something for free. You are paying, one way or the other…

Sometimes there are really-free things. Old-style open-source software is a collection of such things. Extensions, at their beginning, were too, and some of them still are. As far as I know, for example, there's no 'gotcha' in uBlock Origin (although there is the 'gotcha' of knowing to look for them instead of the myriad other solutions that are non-free).

Re: I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections

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Please promote Firefox extensions. Chrome and Google are on a dangerous trajectoryin ruining peoples lives. Please dont be part of the problem in promoting chrome / chromium

> Please promote Firefox extensions. Chrome and Google are on a dangerous trajectoryin ruining peoples lives.

Unfortunately, Firefox is on a trajectory of "imitate what Chrome's doing." I certainly no longer trust Mozilla as I once did. They're probably better than Google, but they've made it clear they're going to make decisions for market share over respecting their historical ideals.

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