Substitutions

Name: Substitutions
Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Author: ollidamra

Alters webpage content to make reading the news more amusing. It does this by replacing words and phrases as well as sometimes replacing images, making the text zalgo or russian, or changing the font or color of text.

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A simple addon. When enabled, it applies various replacements to all webpages to make them more amusing. It can be enabled and disabled through your about:addons page.

Originally this was based on the xkcd comics 1288, 1625, and 1679, but now it does much more. In addition to applying most of the xkcd substitutions, it aso does a few of my own. Beyond substitutions, the addon does a number of other things sporadically. It will sometimes replace images, make the text zalgo, change the font to comic sans, change the font color, or for longer text nodes, replace the text with an excerpt from "The Cat in the Hat" translated to russian. Overall, this addon should make the news very amusing.

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Add-on

By:

ollidamra

Daily users:

Rating:

2.00

(3)

Version:

2.1resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5729054

Creation date:

2017-11-04

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Permissions:

activeTab

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

5.15MB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-16

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# 73,934 ▼ 90

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Developed by:

ollidamra

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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/substitutions/

User Reviews

by D3*****, 2019-03-11

I confirm, it doesn't change anything in the display of webpage when browsing the Internet, neither in the google image search, wikipedia, nothing. Except when you search "Donad Trump" it shows Frump-a-lump instead of Donald Trump, but even the example search "serious people" shows only "serious people", no joke image. Rename your extension or add more jokes. It's a bit light.

by PE*****, 2018-12-10

Simply does not work.

by Fi*****, 2018-05-28

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Is Substitutions Safe?

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Substitutions requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Substitutions is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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