# Discussed - HN, Reddit with AI Summaries

> Find HN, Reddit & Lobsters discussions about any page. Summarize community insights with AI.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/discussed](https://chrome-stats.com/d/discussed)

## Overview

- **ID:** `discussed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** discussed.dev
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26
- **First published:** 2026-04-06
- **Size:** 116 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/discussed/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/discussed-dev/extension/issues](https://github.com/discussed-dev/extension/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/discussed/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/discussed/privacy/)

## Description

<strong>Discussed</strong> automatically finds community discussions about the page you're browsing — on Hacker News, Reddit, and Lobsters — and lets you summarize them with AI in one click.

<strong>How it works:</strong> Browse any page and see a badge showing how many discussions exist. Click the icon to see threads sorted by activity. Hit "Summarize All" to get an AI-powered synthesis of what communities are saying — enhanced with article context and page comments for richer insights.

<strong>Features:</strong>
- Auto-discovery across Hacker News, Reddit, and Lobsters
- AI summaries enriched with article content and reader comments
- Export summaries as Markdown, plain text, or Obsidian notes
- 8 AI providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, xAI, OpenRouter, Ollama
- Bring your own API key — no account required, no data sent to our servers
- Multi-language summaries (7 languages)
- Keyboard shortcut: Alt+D
- Works on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge

<strong>Privacy-first:</strong> No backend server, no analytics, no telemetry. Your API key stays in your browser. Page content is read locally and sent only to your chosen AI provider.

## Rankings

- #127,220 — Overall
- #136 — ai summarize
- #140 — ai summarizer
- #155 — summarize
- #174 — summary
- #186 — ai summary

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `https://hn.algolia.com/*`
- `https://www.reddit.com/*`
- `https://lobste.rs/*`
- `https://api.anthropic.com/*`
- `https://api.openai.com/*`
- `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/discussed)