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Re:Why social media bosses don’t use social media by davchana on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:53AM (#16230250)
Not sure, but is it not that bookmarklets need to be clicked by user on every page visit, whereas Extension can auto process every page visit without user intervention?
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Re:Why social media bosses don’t use social media by vog on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:01AM (#16230510)
Good point. Although a bookmarklet can also ignore the current site and just open a new tab, it can't embed custom JavaScript into that new tab.

But at least it can open a new tab with a full-page iframe, which was just enough for me to implement my autoreload bookmarklet. [1]

Apart from that, I believe there are meta-extensions which provide a generic way to inject JavaScript into every page. This is just one extension, but manages multiple bookmarklets (or whatever they call these snippets).

[1] https://vog.github.io/autoreload/

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