Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)

by impish19on 2/28/2022, 5:32 PMwith 11 comments

A few days ago I saw this tweet from PG: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1496549841912094733 ...and guessed it shouldn't be too hard to make a chrome extension to do this (I had never made a chrome extension before)

So I took a stab at it - took me a bit over a day to make it, and it was fun to put together.

I responded to his tweet with the link to the extension but I'm not sure if he would've seen it.

edit: Looks like I missed the approval notification for the listing of this extension on the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trab-tweet-reporte...

by webmavenon 2/28/2022, 10:33 PM

What does PG stand for in this context?

by aluminum96on 2/28/2022, 6:46 PM

Would you expand this to allow reporting of bots and manipulated accounts? I've seen a ton of false reports about the RU invasion of UA from recently-created accounts this week.

by MaxWolffeon 2/28/2022, 7:16 PM

Very cool - also great Github page showing it in action.

by HenrikBon 3/1/2022, 3:28 PM

Thanks for doing this. Have you considered making it open source (FOSS)?

by xfalcoxon 2/28/2022, 8:16 PM

Any Firefox alternatives?

by sakethr98on 2/28/2022, 5:39 PM

nice one!