I made a browser extension called "Hack This Page" with which you can edit or 'hack' any website with ease.
(Download links at the end of the post)
- Yes, I did give myself more subscribers than PewDiePie and a video with 4 Billion views
- And no, I didn't use the developer tools (inspect element, etc.)
Here's another one:
- Yep, see that, founded by me 🤣
Essentially, once you add the extension and click the hack button, you can edit webpages like a text document without ever opening the developer tools!
This makes it very easy to use to prank your friends and requires no programming skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678LAl7E76U
Hack This Page is available to download for Google Chrome and Firefox
Check out my other browser extensions here
Note: All the changes made to websites are temporary, this means, they will disappear once you reload the page and will not show up on any other devices. All changes are completely local.
Top comments (8)
Ah this post again, but with a brand new user account or with the old article deleted as I can't find my comment from last time.
Last time I was positive about the plugin as a simple non techie way to edit pages (it injects
content-editableinto everything, a nice simple solution!) but this time my concerns about some of the practices of the author make me think that if the plugin gets enough downloads something nefarious will come in an update.Hi, the last post did get deleted so this is a re-post.
I just wanted to say that don't appreciate your distasteful accusation. Also, browser web-stores have code filters and anti-threat systems in place to block anything 'nefarious' getting by. Furthermore, I take pride in all my work and I would never dream of doing anything that could potentially harm any of my users. Therefore, use my extension or don't use it, just don't accuse me of something so disgusting.
You have to understand that it just looked suspicious, posts don't get deleted by accident, in fact your whole profile is new so it raises alarm bells, however I am happy that you took the time to respond and I am sure it was for an innocent reason.
Do not be offended, once you have more posts on dev.to etc. then the trust levels will increase again.
Having looked at your site and other social networks I am sure you are stand-up and working hard to promote your work and I apologise that you felt I was being too heavy handed, I have just seen too many things similar to this being used to trick less tech savvy people.
Thanks a lot, I get where you were coming from. My older dev account actually got de-activated for some unknown reason and I wasn't able to do anything like write a new post or change my bio. I wrote about this glitch/bug to the Dev team and they didn't respond so, 3 weeks later, I decided to delete that account and make a new one. Anyway, I appreciate your concern 👍
I look forward to seeing more posts from you on this account then! ❤️
It is awesome to see this as an extension, but what you can also do is you can just make a bookmarklet out of it. It is almost the same thing, and people don't have to download an extension and all that.
You can just save this code:
javascript:(function() { document.body.contentEditable=true;})();
as a bookmarklet, and it will do the same thing
Nevertheless, this is great!
What's the difference between your extension and using the developer tools that also let you edit the page directly?
The difference is that you don't have to open the developer tools like inspect element or the console. It is easier to use and great for people who don't have web development skills!
Developers may prefer to use the dev tools but there are people who don't even know about them.