Obscura
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Obscura

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Overview

Window tint for the web.

Obscura reduces blue light from web pages, making it easier to fall asleep. Simple controls: on/off button, and a color picker. Respects your privacy: no trackers, no ads. Permissions: this type of extension requires the "can read and change your data" permission, even though it does not actually read any of your data. That's why I wrote this extension, and it's why I try to keep the code short - so anyone can look at the code and be sure it is not doing anything nefarious. Note: that this type of extension does not work on the Chrome Web Store pages, you'll have to visit a normal page to see the effect. You're encouraged to examine and audit the code yourself, it's relatively short at 58 total lines of JavaScript. Source code available (MIT License): https://gitlab.com/hoosieree/chrome-extension-obscura Changelog (starting with version 3.1, see gitlab commit messages for more detail). 3.1: Chrome fixed their issue with PDFs not playing nice with extensions, so I was able to remove some special case code. Nice when an update is smaller than the previous version. 3.2: bugfix - typo caused entire extension to not work. Solution: remove typo. 3.3: Remove debug console messages, remove unused code, remove div id. 3.3.1: Work around some websites not respecting the "hidden" attribute of obscura's div, and as a result made the code shorter and simpler. Win-win!

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Laughing PrinceApr 5, 2018

Great stuff. Thanks for making this, it's really refreshing after wandering through an endless sea of paid promotions, spyware, and non-functional extensions to find something which immediately upon using I see a noticeable and positive difference. The UI frankly isn't pretty but it's intuitive and works well. Only change I'd recommend is a note when on the extension store that extensions don't work~ I always forget that and spend a minute wondering why nothing is happening before realizi... Show more

Details

  • Version
    3.3.1
  • Updated
    March 26, 2020
  • Offered by
    Alex Shroyer
  • Size
    25.35KiB
  • Languages
    English
  • Non-trader
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