Cook's Illustrated Exclusive Search

Fixes Cook's Illustrated search to remove advertisements for other network sites

Cook's Illustrated Exclusive Search

Cook's Illustrated Exclusive Search is a Chrome extension that fixes the Cook's Illustrated search by removing advertisements for other network sites. It modifies the search parameters to only display results from Cook's Illustrated Online, ensuring a cleaner and more focused search experience.
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By: amh
Users: 16
-5
Version: 0.1.0 (Last updated: 2018-12-05)
Creation date: 2018-12-04
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Size: 8.26M

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Extension summary

By default, Cook's Illustrated (https://www.cooksillustrated.com) includes search results from all its network sites, even if you do not have a membership to those other sites. These search results are advertisements because the content is locked behind a paywall.

After performing a search it is possible to deselect the other sites manually, then the search results will not include any advertisements for network sites. However, browsing to a recipe and performing a new search will reset the selected sites requiring them to be deselected manually, every single time a search is performed.

As an example, the search query bacon has 40 results on the first page. Of these 40, only 15 results are for Cook's Illustrated Online. That means that 37% of results are valid and 63% of results are advertisements.

By default, when the form is submitted with a search term bacon the search results page will include results from:

  • cio, aka "Cook's Illustrated Online"
  • cco, aka "Cook's Country Online"
  • atk, aka "America's Test Kitchen"
  • cookbook_collection, aka "Cookbook Collection"
  • school, aka "Cooking School"

If you have not paid for subscriptions to all of these sites then the search results will be polluted with advertisements for these network sites.

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Cook's Illustrated Exclusive Search requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Cook's Illustrated Exclusive Search has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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