Careful What You Wish For

Extension to protest SJ34. Records browser history when on. Lets you tweet Congress members browser history.

Careful What You Wish For - Protest SJ34 Chrome Extension

Careful What You Wish For is a Chrome extension designed to protest SJ34, a bill that allows for the purchase and distribution of metadata. This extension records the sites you visit and enables you to send those URLs to random Senators or Congresspeople who voted Yes on the bill through Twitter. It offers the option to use a dedicated Twitter account for tweeting. By turning the extension on, your browsing history is stored locally on your machine. You can choose to turn off the history recording feature if desired. When you want to be mischievous, you can send pre-prepared tweets via the extension to the Congress members. The extension includes a cooldown and tweet limit to comply with Twitter's rules.

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Extension stats

Users: 16

Rating: 2.00

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Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2017-09-07)

Creation date: 2017-09-07

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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Size: 82.51K

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# 115,552 ▲ 2,104

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#921 in Social Networking ▲ 6 #211 in machine keyword 3 ▲ 8 #254 in tweet keyword 4 ▲ 9

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Congress passed a bill (SJ34) that allows for the purchase and distribution of metadata. So this is us giving it to them. For every URL you visit, you can choose to send that URL to a random Senator or Congressperson who voted Yes on the bill through Twitter.

If you don't want to use your own Twitter account, use ours. The username is tweet_congress and the password is spicymemeball. Don't ask why.

To use, turn the switch to on and browse to your hearts content, the app will record the sites you visit. All that data is stored locally to your machine--I don't wanna know if you play Wizard 101 or play games on Disney Channel but Congress might! If you don't want the extension to record browser history, turn the switch to off.

When you feel like being mischievous, open the extension back up and check to make sure you have tweets prepared to send (they are prepared as you browse so if there aren't any just refresh some pages or open some tabs). If you have tweets ready, click the tweet button and a window should open with a pre-prepared tweet loaded with the message "@randomCongressManOrWoman just in case you were wonderin', I'm on <URL> #SJ34". I wasn't able to test this on multiple machines, but the window should open directly on top of the extension and the button to actually send the tweet should be right on top of the Tweet button in the extension. Thus, you should be able to just put your mouse on top and tap away.

The cooldown and tweet limit is there for if I attempt to automate the tweet sending, which Twitter doesn't like too much.