Deshitification is directly related to profit motives, VC dollars, and providing a service or good that overwhelmingly exceeds any hope of making substantial ROI in the future. None was shown in any of the above promotional materials, your company and product is tarnishing and devaluing the term, congrats on the achievement. We'll continue to look for another word that has not been captured.
Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
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Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#212I think this is doomed by the fact tweaks will break in subtle and unpredictable ways every time a website updates, and since you can't reliably detect that an existing tweak is now broken, you can't regenerate it automatically. Once the user notices something is broken, they'll regenerate, and since an LLM is writing the code, the result will be slightly different (layout, colors, positions, ...) than the previous iteration the user got accustomed to. This sounds maddening after a while, and frustration scales linearly with the amount of tweaks.
Sadly (?) the only reliable way to website unfuckery is and will remain crowdsourcing by a bunch of nerds (see: Easylist) for the foreseeable future. This product is the opposite of that, with everyone having their private collection of prompts/tweaks, which they will have to individually fix every two weeks.
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#213Tried to make one that would highlight the OP's username on HN, but I ran it twice and neither appears to do anything: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/8d84bece6f7740c0b53486c1 https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/9c1736ea15694e9883ad969f
Ah I see what happened. From those links, I can see the pattern for the script is *://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=* . Some browsers don't support the wildcard (*) in the query param, so it would be better if that match pattern was *://news.ycombinator.com/item* . In other words, it isn't that the script does nothing, rather the script isn't actually being applied/running on the page. You can verify this by opening t…
No problem, lemme try it again and see what it creates. Plans never survive their first contact with the enemy :)
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#214Tried to make one that would highlight the OP's username on HN, but I ran it twice and neither appears to do anything: https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/8d84bece6f7740c0b53486c1 https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/9c1736ea15694e9883ad969f
Ah I see what happened. From those links, I can see the pattern for the script is *://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=* . Some browsers don't support the wildcard (*) in the query param, so it would be better if that match pattern was *://news.ycombinator.com/item* . In other words, it isn't that the script does nothing, rather the script isn't actually being applied/running on the page. You can verify this by opening t…
Fix works perfect. Have nice highlighted usernames now :)
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah I see what happened. From those links, I can see the pattern for the script is *://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=* . Some browsers don't support the wildcard (*) in the query param, so it would be better if that match pattern was *://news.ycombinator.com/item* . In other words, it isn't that the script does nothing, rather the script isn't actually being applied/running on the page. You can verify this by opening t…
Fix works perfect. Have nice highlighted usernames now :)
Awesome! If you run into any other issues feel free to email me at contact@trynextbyte.com or join our discord server (https://www.tweeks.io/discord). Always looking for more feedback to improve :)
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#216I created a script that removes the "videos", "short videos", suggested searches, and "people also search for" on Google search results page (videos only suppressed when not searching for videos).
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#217I really want it to use my LLM and API key, so that when you get tired of paying for LLM processing to generate the scripts, that the tool doesn't become useless.
Re: Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
#218I'm not against AI-generated userscripts, but I wish to review and edit the scripts more easily. Currently, the extension hides the code too much and doesn't provide a decent editing experience.