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Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'

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bigstrat2003
73d 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
73d 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
73d ago
2 replies
You hate cloud, we got it, but there are many other word replacement extensions, why is this one worth 1st page of HN?
jaggs
73d ago
1 reply
Chill? :)
Sharlin
73d ago
1 reply
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
73d ago
LOL
chuckadams
73d ago
No need to get all cloudhurt over it.
delduca
73d ago
2 replies
We need one for AI :-)
mrweasel
73d ago
Just replace AI with "Florida man".
quectophoton
73d ago
Related comment from a recent thread that I can't unsee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476
ocdtrekkie
73d 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
71d 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
73d ago
1 reply
Alternatively, cloud->clown.

Clown Computing, Clownflare, Google Clown Platform, etc.

crowbahr
72d ago
Today's forecast is partially clowny with a high of 70 and a low of 58
JJMcJ
73d ago
Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.
Dotnaught
73d ago
cyanydeez
73d ago
someone needs to update it to V3.
dejobaan
73d 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
73d 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
73d 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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