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A comment on Ask HN: Make money on browser extension – possible?.

Re:Ask HN: Make money on browser extension – possible? by eimrine on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:12AM (#39127662)
How about developing and supporting a browser extension for some company?

Have you researched what extensions are able to do? For example extensions for VPN service which is never free.

I would like to pay for adBlock if it becomes paid, I do not use any other extension regularly.

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Re:Ask HN: Make money on browser extension – possible? by jasiek-net on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:41AM (#39127792)
VPN and adblock are good examples of extensions that give real value to the user. When it comes to writing code for someone, I was more interested in the idea for a startup and its business model.
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Re:Ask HN: Make money on browser extension – possible? by eimrine on Thursday January 25, 2024 @10:27AM (#39130520)
VPN is not just a browser extension, this is properly configured someone's computer and an improper way of receiving VPN service.

Adblock is also not just a browser extension, this is a result of some community willing to reverse engineer whatever the web throws at me.

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