WHAT: This is a Chrome browser extension that can help readers avoid encountering the word "Mormon" in their web browser, following the announcement by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that any use of the common nickname for the church and its people was "a major victory for Satan."
WHY: For fun.
HOW: To manually install from this GitHub repo, follow these steps:
- Note: enabling "developer mode" extensions in your browser--as needed for manual install--is risky. Chrome may remind you to be worried about that. As a conscientious computer scientist, I feel obligated to tell you that, in general, installing random things from unknown sources like this is a bad idea, even if they insist (as I do!) that this doesn't do anything nefarious. Caveat emptor.
- Download this git repository to your computer by clicking "Clone or Download" and then "Download ZIP."
- Unzip/extract the ZIP on your computer.
- Go to this URL in your Chrome browser: chrome://extensions/
- Click to check the box for "Developer mode."
- One of the new buttons that should appear is "Load unpacked" (or, in older versions, "Load unpacked extension"). Click it.
- Choose the folder that the unzipped/extracted files are in (probably called "victory-for-satan-blocker").
- The extension should now appear and the "Enabled" box should be checked. Start browsing religious news websites, free of victories for Satan!
EXAMPLE:
Here's a screenshot for y'all:
Special thanks:
Thanks to Tom Maxwell for the tutorial and template code for this project!
Enjoy!
-CBL