Spectacles

Remove Quora's answer obfuscation

What is Spectacles?

Spectacles is a Chrome Browser plugin that removes Quora's answer obfuscation for anonymous users. Enhance your browsing experience on Quora by easily accessing unobfuscated answers. Install Spectacles now!

Extension stats

By: Ben Vinegar

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Users: 199 ▼ -16

Rating: 4.00 (5)

Version: 0.1.2 (Last updated: 2012-08-14)

Creation date: 2012-08-13

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 194.56K

Ranking

# 55250 ▼ 578

Other rankings

#5273 in Accessibility ▼ 39

Other platforms

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Extension summary

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Spectacles is a Chrome Browser plugins that removes Quora's answer obfuscation for anonymous users.

User reviews

Yes, sadly, it seems to no longer be an overlay, but an actual blurred PNG image representation of the text.

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Richard Switzer, 2013-01-10

Love the concept, hate Quora's policy, but they seem to have broken the extension.

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Ell Cee, 2012-10-11

Nice. Quora users thought they were contributing to an openly available resource. This extension restores the original premise of the service.

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Mike MacCana, 2012-08-07

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Spectacles requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Spectacles has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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