Gender Blinder
This extension attempts to suppress implicit gender identity in the pages you visit.
What is Gender Blinder?
Gender Blinder is an open source browser extension designed to remove implicit gender from English language web pages. It aims to make text more gender-neutral, although there are limitations due to the ambiguous nature of language. The extension alters gender-specific words and pronouns, but it may also inadvertently modify unrelated words. Visit the GitHub page for the source code.
Stats
By:
genderblinder
Rating:
2.88
(8)
Creation date:
2017-11-20
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
15.40K
Email:
ge*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website
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Summary
Gender Blinder
An open source browser extension to remove implicit gender from English language web pages.
Known limitations
- Due to the ambiguous nature of language, removing gender from natural English cannot easily be done with 100% accuracy.
- Making gender specific words non-gender-specific is a lossy operation; information about the genders of characters being described is lost. This can make text more ambiguous.
- There is not a one-to-one mapping between English pronouns of different genders, so sometimes there are two possible substitutions i.e. "his" -> "her" OR "his" -> "hers".
- Not all gender specific words are covered.
- Sometimes words unrelated to gender get changed by accident. For example they may have a similar/identical spelling to a gender-specific word.
Source Code: https://github.com/peterwestmacott/genderblinder
User reviews
Its pretty good though it doesn't work sometimes
Useless. There are 2 genders and it makes no sense to try to hide it.
It works enough for now. Have not had a problem with it yet. If I do I will get back to you on that. It needs some improvement, but nothing is perfect so I will not hold it's lack of flawlessness against it.
Safety
Risk impact
Gender Blinder is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Gender Blinder has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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