Re:Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to de-ensh...
by margalabargala on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:23PM
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(4) someone else's deshittification code could easily hide malicious payloads.
Re:Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to de-ensh...
by jmadeano on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:37PM
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Great comment, I've thought a lot about similar ideas. We're just getting started with sharing + discoverability and already working on a feature to surface popular modifications for a given page you are visiting.
The hardest part is doing it in a way that is privacy-first and not annoying. Done wrong, it's kind of like injecting unwanted popups, and no one wants that. Not to mention properly handling points 1-4.
We very likely won't get it perfect on the first try, but hopefully with a few iterations of user feedback we can tune into a useful system.
I am imagining something slightly different perhaps? In the same way Pi Hole has a kind of global list of (ad) URLs to block, I am looking for an extension where all these edits to deshittify a site are applied for me automatically when I visit a site.
That is, if someone has already stripped out banners, etc. (deshittified a site) and (somehow?) "submitted" the edits, I just want to pull those in when I visit the same site.
I understand 1) one person's deshittifying might go too far 2) there will be multiple ways to deshittify a site depending on who does it, and 3) sites change and a deshittify strategy that worked earlier could break.
I have no good answers for the above issues.