ericwbailey / millennials-to-snake-people

🐍 Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'Millennials' with 'Snake People'

This project is no longer maintained due to Manifest V3's user-hostile, anticompetitive policies.

Millennials to Snake People

Browser extension that reveals the real truth behind Millennials.

Installation

1. Add the extension to your browser of choice:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Free your mind

Also

• Need headlines automatically converted and tweeted? Follow @snakepeople_bot on Twitter, courtesy of jimkang's hail-ants-bot
• Uncomfortable that a non-compulsory, intentionally subversive browser extension uses language to affect your worldview, but still want a laugh? Try Millennials to Snake People Pure
• Addicted to text replacement plugins? Check out Cloud to Butt Plus, SJW to Skeleton, Millennials Begone!, Billionaire-to-oligarch replacer

Thanks

Huge thank you to the following people for their help:

• Ports
  • a2 for the Safari port
  • pselle for the Firefox port
• Assistance and advice
  • samford
  • vandahm
• DraftJSapocalypse
  • flarnie
  • drewski3420
  • hguiney
  • redbassett
  • roshkins
  • SnoopJeDi
  • spicyj

How to disable

Don't worry! The extension can be re-enabled after it destroys your blog post it is disabled.

Chrome

Preferences > Extensions > Uncheck Enable

Firefox

Tools > Add-ons > Extensions > Click Disable

Safari

Preferences > Extensions > Uncheck checkbox next to Millennials to Snake People

Screenshots

Google Search Results

The Atlantic

BuzzFeed

Installed Extensions

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

millennials-to-snake-people's Issues

rootNode null when viewing SVG file

With devtools open, you can see the error https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/SVG_logo.svg

if (!rootNode) { return; } would probably get 'er done quick and dirty.

Gen Z is not corrected

Instances of the phrase "Gen Z" do not get correctly turned in to references to the children of Zolom.

Disable replacement in input fields

[Using the abbreviations M and SP to prevent a confusing bug report while the extension is enabled.]

It will trigger while I'm in the middle of typing a comment (as tested on Facebook), and then the cursor shifts to the start of the text, so I have to reposition my cursor and retype the word M and hopefully press Submit before it checks the page again. I want to submit the comment as M, so that people who don't have the extension installed will read it the way it's intended, but I don't mind it displaying as SP once it's posted.

Regex issue

millennials- is not changed to snake-people, but rather snake people. For example, in the title of this repo, it reads as snake people-to-snake-people, thus removing the hyphen. Here is a screenshot:

Also: It should probably be Snake People, not Snake People's in the description.

_{(I may fix this myself in a PR but I'm too lazy busy to do it right now. I'm just adding this as a reminder for myself unless if anyone else wants to do it.)}

Cursor being moved when typing

Starting about a week ago, the extension causes my cursor to jump when I type the first character in a new line. On some sites/input boxes (Facebook Chat message fields, the new note field on Google Keep, and the message compose box in Google Inbox, to name a few), the cursor gets moved back to the start of the line when typing the first character on a blank line:

Expected result:

Hello World

Actual Result:

ello WorldH

When I type the H in a new line, the cursor gets bumped back to the start of the line. If I finish the line and go back, the H can be added fine. Running Chrome Dev 58.0.3018.3 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

regex error

Hi, getting this logged in the console
Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /\bGeneration Z)\b/: Unmatched ')'
v = v.replace(/\bGeneration Z)\b/g, "The Zolom's children");

Which you can see at the Z).

Strangely, the source doesn't show that error, so maybe the chrome extension is not updated?

P.S. This extension is soo 💯, it brings me so much joy and really represents everything I love about the internet.

Feature request: Highlight icon when substitutions have been made

I'd love to be able to look at the extension's icon and see a visual indication if a substitution has been made, so that I can confirm a substitution a substitution has been made if I'm confused about something I'm reading.

Extension breaks Stadia website

I was having trouble with the Google Stadia site not loading. I was surprised to find it was this extenxion causing the issue. I'm not exactly sure why this issue exists but it does.