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Google Chrome extension for zooming images on mouse hover

21 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 7 stories, 14 comments · first 2020-05-13 · latest 2026-04-22

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  1. …browser extension developer" [0] before they install random browser add-ons like this 0: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
    comment by evil-olive · 2026-04-22 · in Grasshopper: Advanced Tab Manager
  2. …offers that I received over years [0] would have been significant in some lower-income country. [0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
  3. …especially for popular extensions Here's what it can look like to an author of a popular extension: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
  4. …extension, I've been collecting various monetization offers. They simply don't stop coming: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
  5. …hplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-ma... shows a ten-line ad blocker that blocks Google's ads, https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 is a list of polite email messages from people who'd like to have elevated access to…
  6. For an example of a scary list of such offers, see https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
  7. I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are…
  8. …reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates" Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his extension and basically perform…
  9. …For other reasons, see also: - https://mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/the-ugly-business-of-mone... - https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
    comment by Terretta · 2023-09-04 · in Jitsi Meet abandons anonimity promise
  10. …in the hope that any malicious changes would be widespread news, but it is still a gamble. [0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680
  11. …for everyone to see. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc... [2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
    comment by extesy · 2023-08-08 · in Uninstall the NightOwl app
  12. …you cash out[0][1] / next level pretty soon. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27327892 [1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670 2 months to this, impressive
  13. …aren't more of these "under new management" extensions, or maybe we just don't know about them. [1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
  14. …like editing cookies, etc? I've submitted it for re-review but I'm not holding much hopes. [1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom [2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/issues/512