Web extension: "Click Censor" - censor text on a webpage with a click of a button

Author
Juro Oravec
Date
01/11/2020
Status
Unpublished

Web extension that added a simple utility: When you selected a text and right-clicked, you had the option to "censor" that text. This action would search for all occurrences of the phrase in the current webpage and hide them out.

Implementation

Written in JavaScript. Interaction with the page was handled using web extension browser API. Text censoring done with https://markjs.io/. The extension used a command queue to handle user actions asynchronously.

Project Status

Currently, the project is unlisted from Chrome Webstore as the store policies changed, and the web extension was using Sentry for error detection.


Technologies

Web Extension, JavaScript, Sentry

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