Tools for Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Productivity tools for Amazon.com's website mturk.com (Mechanical Turk). Adds a menu with various tools for workers.
What is Tools for Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
'Tools for Amazon's Mechanical Turk' is a Chrome extension designed to improve productivity on Amazon's mturk.com workplace. It adds a Tools Menu providing UI enhancements, tools for quick opening and accepting of tasks, fullscreen task viewing options, CAPTCHA simplification features and notifications for job management. Its 'Return and Accept' button offers an efficient manner to cycle through jobs in a group.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.04 (27)
Version: 1.1.9 (Last updated: 2018-03-23)
Creation date: 2018-03-23
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 415.74K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

For the website mturk.com, Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk workplace. A set of tools to improve Worker productivity.

Adds a Tools button and Tools Menu. The tools edit parts of the user interface of the site, such as modifying the display of the job window. Other tools include a "Return and Accept" button, placing the cursor in the CAPTCHA text box.

✫ Full-screen mode to help maximize productivity on tasks.

✫ Customize full-screen settings including task window height, width, and vertical offset.

✫ Setting to always check the checkbox for "Automatically accept the next HIT".

✫ "Open and accept" button to quickly open up to 25 tabs (New Feature!)

✫ Button to turn off "Automatically accept the next HIT" checkboxes in all open tabs and windows.

✫ CAPTCHA-simplification features including: 1) Place the cursor in CAPTCHA box when a CAPTCHA appears; 2) Clears wrong answer from the CAPTCHA text box if CAPTCHA is incorrectly entered; 3) Show an alert notification on all job windows when any job window loads a CAPTCHA; 4) Play an alert notification sound when a CAPTCHA is first encountered; 5) Seven bell notifications to select from, or select Random.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Very helpful
  • Now updated to work with new mTurk release
Cons
  • Doesn't work
  • Plugin doesn't actually do anything
  • Not working on various browsers
  • Limited features compared to other extensions like mTurk Suite (MTS)
Most mentioned
  • Not working
  • Doesn't work
  • Plugin doesn't actually do anything
  • Now updated to work with new mTurk release
Recent reviews
Now updated to work with new mTurk release; however, included tools are a very basic, and are a common component in other extensions that not only offer more, but boost productivity as well (such as mTurk Suite - MTS).
by A Google user, 2018-03-20

doesn't work

very helpful
by eydie saunders, 2016-05-15
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Tools for Amazon's Mechanical Turk is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Tools for Amazon's Mechanical Turk is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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