https://github.com/skn0tt/alex-browser-extension

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing in your browser.
https://github.com/skn0tt/alex-browser-extension

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Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing in your browser.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/skn0tt/alex-browser-extension
• Owner: Skn0tt
• Created: 2019-06-28T20:17:29.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-15T08:48:12.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T13:17:05.027Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.01 MB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 21
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  • Readme: README.md

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![Alex Logo](src/alex_logo.svg)

# Alex Browser Extension

- [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alex/opjbkpkndiednghhgkilndleehjibpaf)

- [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alex-language/)

From [Alex](https://github.com/get-alex/alex)' Docs:

> Whether your own or someone else’s writing, alex helps you find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing in text.\

> For example, when We’ve confirmed his identity is given to alex, it will warn you and suggest using their instead of his.

This repo hosts the code for a browser extension that checks the text you're writing in your browser using Alex.

## FAQ

### Privacy

The browser will scan the contents of all `` and `` elements (including password fields) on the webpage and analyze them using [alex](https://github.com/get-alex/alex/).

Since alex does its text processing locally, your data will never leave the browser.

### What's the *Profanity Likeliness Threshold*?

The *Profanity Likeliness Threshhold* specifies how sure Alex needs to be about a profanity to warn you.

From Alex` docs:

| Rating | Use as a profanity | Use in clean text | Example |

| ------ | ------------------ | ----------------- | ------- |

| 2      | likely             | unlikely          | asshat  |

| 1      | maybe              | maybe             | addict  |

| 0      | unlikely           | likely            | beaver  |