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Show HN: CookieMop – open-source Cookie AutoDelete replacement for Manifest V3

thoopring — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:56:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thoopring/cookiemop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877230

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New comment by thoopring in "Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why"

thoopring — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:30:19 +0000

Browser extension is same problem but smaller. The .crx file is just a zip, so anyone can open it. But almost everything in the store is bundled and minified. You can read it, but you are reading the output of a build you did not run.

So I made mine with no build step at all. The files in the repo are the files that run. Reason is simple. My extension reads cookies, and I could not find other way to let someone confirm that the thing reading their cookies is the thing I published. Unzip the crx, diff with repo, 10 seconds.

Cost is real. No modules, no types, and I had to write some things in a stupid way. It was acceptable because the code is small. For a big project this is not possible, so the work in this article is important.

New comment by thoopring in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

thoopring — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:31:56 +0000

These days, you can easily take notes and mark things in digital books. I wonder if that would be helpful, too?

New comment by thoopring in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

thoopring — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:55:57 +0000

I thought PowerPoint was open on my PC!

New comment by thoopring in "Back to Kagi"

thoopring — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:54:13 +0000

What is the appeal that draws everyone to use Kagi?