Chrome-Stats extension
XKCD substitutions
Making the web a stranger better place.
Total ratings for XKCD substitutions
4.54
(Rating count:
301)
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Pros
- The extension is fun and entertaining, making internet browsing more interesting.
- It has a humorous and unexpected effect on reading online content.
- It has been useful for users dealing with triggers, as it removes certain words.
Cons
- The extension sometimes causes performance issues, notably slowing down Twitter and Facebook.
- Certain substitutions can be recursive, leading to endless repetition of words.
- The extension is disruptive when needing to copy-paste commands from technical websites or when doing serious browsing.
- It is hard to tell what has been changed without a highlighting feature.
Most mentioned
- Users reported recursive issues with the 'expand' -> 'physically expand' substitution.
- Performance issues on sites like Twitter and Facebook have been reported.
- Users suggest improvements such as the ability to toggle the extension without refreshing and the addition of a highlighting feature for changes.
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Recent reviews for XKCD substitutions
Recent rating average:
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All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2021-08-05 |  |
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Love it. Little thing though: for "expand" --> "physically expand", the extension gives me 10–20 physicallys, probably because the substitution contains its own trigger word. And as others said, uppercase and lowercase distinction would be nice but that's just cosmetic. Edit: they are getting more and more. I am at over 50 physicallys now. | |
| 2021-08-05 |  |
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en | Love it. Little thing though: for "expand" --> "physically expand", the extension gives me 10–20 physicallys, probably because the substitution contains its own trigger word. And as others said, uppercase and lowercase distinction would be nice but that's just cosmetic. Edit: they are getting more and more. I am at over 50 physicallys now. |
| 2021-04-08 | Ye Wang |
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I tried replacing "."="!?" but instead it just replaces every space with "!?". Other than that it worked fine and I had a lot of fun. | |
| 2021-02-23 |  |
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Very nice... worth the install. Laughing for days. Don't forget to turn it off if you're doing something serious, though... it can get confusing. Still. Very good. | |
| 2021-02-12 |  |
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It makes the Internet a stranger and better place. There are a couple problems, though, but they are all possible to fix. The first problem is that switching 2 words doesn't work. For example, when you set it to change minute to year and year to minute, it just changes both minute and year to minute. This can be fixed by adding a 0-length whitespace character to the text, like this one: (). This can also fix the recursive "physically physically expands" issue, as others have noted. The second problem is that it does not work with 0 web sites in the blocklist, but that can be fixed by adding gibberish to the blocklist. The third problem is that it does not have the substitutions 3 comic by default, but they are easy to add. | |
| 2020-10-13 |  |
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Reading the news have became my favorite part of my day | |
| 2020-10-14 |  |
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en | Reading the news have became my favorite part of my day |
| 2019-12-01 |  |
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now i read news | |
| 2019-10-31 |  |
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Would be nice if it somehow highlighted what was removed. But really funny otherwise! | |
| 2019-10-02 |  |
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All of this is yes. |
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