Chrome Extension That Replaces Occurrences of 'the Cloud' with 'my Butt'

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A Chrome extension that replaces 'the cloud' with 'my butt' is shared, sparking discussions on its humor, security implications, and the broader topic of word replacement extensions.

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bigstrat2003

4 months ago

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I love the cloud to butt extension, but eventually had to disable it. It would occasionally interfere with the correct operation of sites I visited, and that wasn't worth the amusement of seeing "store your data in my butt" etc.

DonHopkins

4 months ago

The extension-free, euphemism-treadmill solution is for everyone to regularly use and read "cloud" as if it were "butt". And anybody who doesn't like it can kiss my cloud!

stackedinserter

4 months ago

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You hate cloud, we got it, but there are many other word replacement extensions, why is this one worth 1st page of HN?

jaggs

4 months ago

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Chill? :)

Sharlin

4 months ago

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I mean, I wonder about it as well, given that it’s, what, ten years old now and cloud hasn’t been the buzzword in vogue in a long time. Today we need something-like AI-to-butt converter. “We are a ‘my butt first’ company”, “We expect everyone to use my butt at work”, “powered by my butt”…

jaggs

4 months ago

LOL

chuckadams

4 months ago

No need to get all cloudhurt over it.

delduca

4 months ago

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We need one for AI :-)

mrweasel

4 months ago

Just replace AI with "Florida man".

quectophoton

4 months ago

Related comment from a recent thread that I can't unsee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476

ocdtrekkie

4 months ago

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I really have to emphasize that nobody should ever install an extension like this. In exchange for a cheap chuckle you are letting a random individual have the access to read and modify the contents of every website you view. And as long as they don't change the permissions they can silently update the extension whenever they want.

If you think this is okay, you should not ever work on anything involving security or private data access, ever.

BrandoElFollito

4 months ago

This is a good point, in particular regarding the updates that you do not know happened.

This is also true for a lot of modern greenfield applications where for the legitimate ones this is a blessing and a nightmare for the malicious ones. We just had a strike of cases related to a ODF reader that got updated with malware (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s...)

quectophoton

4 months ago

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Alternatively, cloud->clown.

Clown Computing, Clownflare, Google Clown Platform, etc.

crowbahr

4 months ago

Today's forecast is partially clowny with a high of 70 and a low of 58

JJMcJ

4 months ago

Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.

Dotnaught

4 months ago

I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni...

https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies

cyanydeez

4 months ago

someone needs to update it to V3.

dejobaan

4 months ago

I loved this one back in the day, and have referenced it within the past month. The author felt that simply changing "cloud" to "butt" was less funny. But that always brings to mind the 1994 TSR mage-to-wizard search-and-replace: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_199...

radpanda

4 months ago

I worked at a three-letter agency when the prefix “cyber-” became widely used, and widely disliked. I remember someone there distributed a similar browser extension that changed every instance of “cyber” to “computery”.

blamazon

4 months ago

Someone at Amazon hilariously uploaded a job description that was filtered through this extension:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819

> Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?

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