Hacker News: modzu

New comment by modzu in "KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations"

modzu — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:18:02 +0000

dont be so sure they didnt. they can go back and forth hallucinating with each other

New comment by modzu in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

modzu — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:53:56 +0000

i had a similar sort of experience on a european trip recently but it was the observation that the kids werent wearing yoga pants

Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?

modzu — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:04:52 +0000

I submit an extension (an adblocker) to Google Chrome's web store.

Google keeps rejecting it for dubious reasons. The first rejection was claim it was "spam". When I appealed, the review came back that it contained "additional functionality" because it uses "modifies network traffic". Well of course it does! When I asked the reviewer how I could achieve the stated functionality of blocking ads without the use of "declarativeNetRequest" I simply received the same canned response.

I submit a totally new update that simplified the code and included comments, and references to other open source projecs that use the exact same mechanisms. Again it was rejected. On this appeal I asked if it could be escalated to a senior reviewer who could possibly reply with more context. Same canned response and rejection.

I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround. It is obvious to me the stated rejections are not valid (Note that I'm also not new to this - I have several extensions that have been published for years with thousands of users) but have never encountered such gate-keeping before.

It's a sad state of affairs even if not totally unpredictable. To be honest I'm surprised Google hasn't made it an official policy to prohibit adblockers. But they haven't - obviously there are other adblockers published to the store, and that's what makes this so frustrating.

Anyway, fellow developers. Anyone run into a similar situation? And how did you resolve it? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447980

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New comment by modzu in "They’re made out of weights"

modzu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:27:21 +0000

if youve ever seen a pile of wrinkly mush and wondered.. pretty damn crazy too

https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

New comment by modzu in "Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows"

modzu — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:25:13 +0000

"survival" is the wrong word; its terminal. honestly the drugs and chemo and treatments they put pancreatic patients through for possibly a few more (not very nice) weeks is almost criminal. a good doctor will tell you to go make the most of those 3 months post diagnosis. that said its nice to see progress against one of the worst cancers out there and i hope it leads to genuine breakthroughs. but this drug is nothing anybody wants, even if they think they do

New comment by modzu in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

modzu — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:41:28 +0000

jesus will save us

New comment by modzu in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

modzu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:11:12 +0000

christ, sounds like mcnamara. the americans killed north vietnamese faster than they killed americans, so how come they lost?

New comment by modzu in "NASA Artemis Posters"

modzu — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:26:30 +0000

this is one of the great insights of photography and we can all apply it. no one gives a shit about another picture of the leaning tower of pisa in your photo album. its the weird, candid, accidental shots that are most interesting and enduring. but its easy to not grasp that in the moment - the tower is what you're there to see, and its stunning, so of course it's what you photograph. those spaces in between though, like that iphone video, are what secretly transcend

New comment by modzu in "No Terms. No Conditions"

modzu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:39:38 +0000

i do wonder if the world would be a better place if instead of lawyers we had cage matches

New comment by modzu in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

modzu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:11:35 +0000

lol who is this guy talking to

New comment by modzu in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

modzu — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:37:58 +0000

i can't even get youtube to load with ublock.. theres a years old thread with hundreds of comments on the github -- what are people actually using today to preserve their sanity on youtube?

edit: the issue with ublock is the black screen - sometimes the video loads after 10 or so seconds, sometimes it doesnt. i dont consider hiding the ad while still having to wait around for it to finsish playing behind an overlay the same as "blocking" :|

New comment by modzu in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

modzu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:47:23 +0000

image generation kind of reminds me of video games or any cgi in general.. the progress is undeniable, and yet with every milestone it seems the last gap to "photorealism" is infinitely wide

New comment by modzu in "I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor"

modzu — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 07:25:33 +0000

reminds me of a friend who had IBS and was desperate to try a fecal transplant but no doctor would offer it. so her partner gave her one and it worked

New comment by modzu in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

modzu — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:26:29 +0000

uh ohhh... forgot how to think..

New comment by modzu in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

modzu — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:28:30 +0000

probably vibe coded

New comment by modzu in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

modzu — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:29:50 +0000

an old lady and a fucking nurse shot by goons in masks and tactical gear... and they are labelling who as terrorists??? ffs america

New comment by modzu in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

modzu — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:29:02 +0000

I'm getting fucking sick of it. this bubble can go ahead and burst

New comment by modzu in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

modzu — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:31:07 +0000

not your keys? not your crypto

New comment by modzu in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

modzu — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:09:18 +0000

most humans share the same core values. values antithetical to war.

New comment by modzu in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

modzu — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:17:34 +0000

nobody demonized afx or idm bro. autotune, yes. but that's different. damn autotune to hell