Tootfinder

Finden sich hier zufällig #Mastodon Web UI Nutzende, die Interesse an einer Browser-Extension hätten, mit der man die Mastodon-UI etwas modifizieren kann?
Ich bräuchte Beta-Testende.
Konkret kann meine neue #Extension bisher:
- Emoji Filter in Usernamen
- Username Cleanup

ok so, check this out
i have the YoWASP toolchain extension use a full OpenBSD toolchain cross-compiled to run on Wasm in the browser produce OpenBSD binaries!

@… has a nice writeup about the differences between Chrome extensions and WebExtensions https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-a-webext

What is a WebExtension, and how is it different from a Chrome extension?
Building cross-browser extensions is easier than it used to be, but still tedious.

»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions | Koi Blog

Äh... das uBlock-basierte AdNauseam funktioniert jedenfalls nicht mehr. Vivaldi wird, falls es das doch noch nicht haben sollte, Manifest V2 Support und damit funktionierendes uBlock verlieren. Komischer Schritt zu einer komischen Zeit, Herr
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AFAIK the work on native messaging for flatpaks (and snaps) is done so that KeePassXC and KeePassXC Browser could finally talk to each other again. But I could not find out what's still missing. Does my OS need an update of the xdg portals? Do the browser vendors need to support the portal? Currently, it's Zen and Vivaldi which are sandboxed. Or is it the browser extension or KeePassXC itself?
#keepassxc

Maybe it's a good day to go through your Browser's privacy settings and extension list or maybe a fresh install.
#privacy #Browser

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<https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/wayback-machine_new/> – the official Internet Archive Wayback Machine browser extension for Firefox.

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 https://www.404media.co/slop-evader-browser-extension-pre-generative-ai-search-filter/

Australian artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain has created 'Slop Evader', a browser extension search tool for either Firefox or Chrome that evades AI slop by using the Google search API to only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022: https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

Update on attempt to emulate a Shockwave Director web page: I have tried the DirPlayer Chrome extension but get this error:
"Could not deserialize 'VWCF' chunk"
I included both <object> and <embed> tags pointing to the same .dcr file. Does anyone have other emulators to recommend?

Someone should build a browser extension to replace every mention to "#grokpedia" with "bullshitpedia".

🛡️ #AdNauseam is a #privacy-focused browser extension that fights back against advertising surveillance by automatically clicking every blocked ad
🎯 Built on top of #uBlockOrigin, …

It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Ben Rosenzweig, Valentino Dalla Valle, Giovanni Apruzzese, Aurore Fass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21590

It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Google Chrome is the most popular Web browser. Users can customize it with extensions that enhance their browsing experience. The most well-known marketplace of such extensions is the Chrome Web Store (CWS). Developers can upload their extensions on the CWS, but such extensions are made available to users only after a vetting process carried out by Google itself. Unfortunately, some malicious extensions bypass such checks, putting the security and privacy of downstream browser extension users a…

What If Moderation Didn't Mean Suppression? A Case for Personalized Content Transformation
Rayhan Rashed, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22861 https://…

What If Moderation Didn't Mean Suppression? A Case for Personalized Content Transformation
Centralized content moderation paradigm both falls short and over-reaches: 1) it fails to account for the subjective nature of harm, and 2) it acts with blunt suppression in response to content deemed harmful, even when such content can be salvaged. We first investigate this through formative interviews, documenting how seemingly benign content becomes harmful due to individual life experiences. Based on these insights, we developed DIY-MOD, a browser extension that operationalizes a new paradi…

💡 Follows the obfuscation strategy of #TrackMeNot, shifting the power balance between trackers and tracked users
🆓 Free and #opensource browser extension available for #Firefox,

I have a question for anyone who happens to be knowledgeable about web standards:
The same way we had the (failed?) "DoNotTrack" header... Is there any working group or initiative working on an #HTTP header sent by the browser (or similar mechanism) to signal that the user wants an ecological/lightweight website? Something like "SaveEnergy" or "LowEnergy", or "LightweightMode".
Would it make sense? Or do you foresee that it would fail for some specific reasons?
P.S.: Of course I would prefer if we didn't have to signal our discontent with the unjustifiably big and unoptimized web pages that we are served.
P.S.2: Now I am feeling tempted to write a browser extension for people who want to use "alternative communication channels" (HTTP headers) to "yell" arbitrary stuff at certain websites (It would be glorious if we could coordinate a big "Fuck you, Google", or, in a more positive tone, "Free Palestine!").
#WebDevelopment #WebDev #Web #Ecology