Hacker News: SiteRelEnby

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

SiteRelEnby — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:47:19 +0000

Some of the spiciest:

* Anti-Zionist Tag (directly inferring political opinion)

* PordaAI (Islamic content filter)

* simplify (browsergate.eu specifically called out as a neurodivergent accessibility tool. Job search autofill that markets itself as particularly useful for people who struggle with forms)

* No more Musk ("Hides digital noise related to Elon Musk")

* Political Circus ("Politician -> Clown AI Filter")

* Job application trackers and utils ("Job Follow-Up Tracker" etc)

* Various "Distraction Blocker" type addons

LinkedIn scanning for tools that scrape LinkedIn:

* LinkedIn Cookie Sync for Headhunting Agent

* LinkedIn Cookie importer for Derrick (lol "for Derrick")

* MailMatics Cookie Grabber

* LinkedIn Fake Job Post Detector. Yes, they're detecting an addon that exposes fake job postings on their own platform.

*NOT* in the list, if you were wondering:

* Shinigami Eyes

* Dark Reader

* Adblockers

* Password managers

* FoxyProxy

* User-Agent spoofers, request modification tools, etc

* Most privacy/security tools (no uBO, no Privacy Badger, no FoxyProxy, no NoScript, etc.

For the latter category, the most interesting things there we found *were* searched-for are BuiltWith Technology Profiler, and some browser addons bundled from scanners (e.g. "Malwarebytes Browser Guard Beta").

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

SiteRelEnby — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:36:06 +0000

Enumerated a full list.

https://git.gay/SiteRelEnby/browsergate-list

https://git.gay/SiteRelEnby/browsergate-list/src/branch/main...

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

SiteRelEnby — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:40:09 +0000

Has it been 12 months again already? That's about how often one of these stories come up. I guess some people don't learn.

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "Does expensive wine taste better?"

SiteRelEnby — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:07:28 +0000

I think there's a noticeable difference between a $5 and $10-15 bottle, but much less difference between a $15 and $100, and zero between $100 and $250+.

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

SiteRelEnby — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:18:21 +0000

Care to provide a source for your claims about Signal?

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "I no longer trust The Great Suspender"

SiteRelEnby — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:58:56 +0000

It's more the chance of an unexpected breaking change. When you use a package manager, you're expecting stuff to change (and get to review what's changing).

Upgrading manually regularly: Good idea.

Having a cronjob to do it automatically without user intervention: Bad idea.

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England"

SiteRelEnby — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:07:19 +0000

Vans labelled "TV Detector Van". Which are actually minibuses which drop off people who peek through windows.

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster"

SiteRelEnby — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:36:05 +0000

Emacs tutorials can be one line: "ctrl-x ctrl-c".

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "I no longer trust The Great Suspender"

SiteRelEnby — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:33:57 +0000

Blindly letting anything auto-update.

New comment by SiteRelEnby in "I no longer trust The Great Suspender"

SiteRelEnby — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:33:23 +0000

Either the second or third time it lost all my tabs was when I stopped trusting it.