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by matt1 1293 days ago
Thanks, totally agree about sharing screenshots. I originally started building the site intending people to share text-only examples, but it gets complicated with the formatted responses that ChatGPT generates. And since everyone is sharing screenshots right now anyway, it made sense to just support that for this v1. I do want to add support for sharing text responses so screenshots aren't necessary in all cases. And maybe a Chrome extension could make the process easier, including working with formatted output. Thanks for sharing yours; it could be a good starting point for one build for LearnGPT.
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Suggestion: make it a bookmarklet[0] instead of an extension.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

What are the tradeoffs of building a Chrome extension vs a bookmarklet?
As a privacy-concerned user, a bookmarklet may be preferable because it's only going to execute code when you explicitly request it, rather than an extension running all the time.
That and you know its code won’t change. Vet it yourself once and then use with peace of mind.

Compare to a browser extension which wants permission to read and modify content on all websites, and by default is set to auto-update (in Firefox at least). Even if the extension author is trustworthy and the code is benign to begin with, how do you know it’ll stay that way? Extensions have been sold before for nefarious purposes.