Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by dbandstra on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:21PM (#20558954)

I think this is a great idea. I maintain a personal extension as well. I've experimented with a few ideas for augmenting browser experience, but so far I'm mostly just hiding obtrusive elements on various websites (mostly by CSS, with some JS where sites obfuscate class names).

Even that would have taken multiple thirdparty extensions to accomplish - and probably would have required giving very broad permissions to them. Worth noting that Stylish, one of the extensions I might have used, was compromised with spyware a few years ago.

As for publishing, I don't publish mine because it forms a kind of personal fingerprint. The more I add to it the more personal it gets. I rather support the idea of everyone having their own custom extension. You can really improve your online quality of life and with the WebExtension API it's pretty painless.

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Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by roryokane on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:12PM (#20571433)

Though Stylish was compromised, you can safely use the fork Stylus that was created in response: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

I use Stylus to add custom CSS to sites and Violentmonkey (https://violentmonkey.github.io/) to add custom JS. They both make it fairly easy to start writing code for a new site. However, there is no easy way to set up both custom CSS and custom JS for a single site – a custom browser extension like you made could potentially support that better.

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Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl... by heavenlyblue on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:30PM (#20560156)

Is Stylish still compromised?

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