jmsv / astonhack2017

AstonHack 2017 - FaktNews: A browser extension to grade the trustworthiness of sites you visit

For Aston University's 2017 Hackathon we submitted a browser extension called FaktNews.

FaktNews grades the trustworthiness of the website you're currently viewing. For each website you visit, we average Majestic's trustworthiness value, our own measure, and the community's vote to give you an overall grade.

Support

We currently support any browser that uses the WebExtensions API. This includes Chrome, Firefox, and Edge among others. Internet Explorer does not have support, and we do not plan to add it. Ensure your browser is up-to-date, as there are many known issues with older builds.

Chrome

To install on Chrome do the following:

1. Go to chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer mode
3. Click Load unpacked extension...
4. Navigate to the Extension folder, and click the Open on the folder

Firefox

To install on FireFox do the following:

1. Go to about:debugging
2. Tick Enable add-on debugging
3. Click Load Temporary Add-on
4. Navigate to the Extension folder, and click Open on any item inside the folder

Opera

To install on Opera do the following:

1. Press Ctrl-Shift-E or naviagte to: Menu > Extensions > Extensions
2. Click Developer Mode
3. Click Load unpacked extension...
4. Navigate to the Extension folder, and click the OK on the folder

Edge

While our extension is compatible with Edge, you have to publish it to the Windows Store which we are not going to do.

Libraries used

Frontend

• ericwenn/piechart
• pguso/jquery-plugin-circliful

Backend

• Python Flask