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Add Mindful Google™ #98

Closed tunjos closed 2 years ago

tunjos commented 2 years ago

A Chrome extension that disables Autocomplete and other distracting elements on Google's pages.

If your suggested entry is code project:

### Name of my software/tool/service/technology/project : Mindful Google™ ### Explain why it's a Humane Technology: { } It helps with mindfullness when using the Google Search Engine. It disables Autocomplete and other distracting elements on Google's pages. ### Sourcecode is available at : [Mindful-Google™](https://github.com/tunjos/Mindful-Google) ### Is there a similar software/tool etc., that already exists? No: No extension so far helps to disable autocomplete on Google. This is a forced feature by Google. Some search engines like DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. provide the possibility to completely disable autocomplete. Others like Google don't. ### Add any other topic/section here you wish to explain and elaborate Read more here...[Autocomplete in Search Engines can be evil. Find out why!](https://tunjos.co/blog/autocomplete-search-engine-can-be-evil/)
aschrijver commented 2 years ago

Thanks for your PR!

It is a candidate for addition, even though it isn't very popular yet (but popularity is not the main criterium for considering something 'awesome' :smile: ).

I try to have entries fit a single line on the README here on Github. That is a rule, but it isn't documented well (there is an open issue for that). Your description is too long then.

Finally.. I consider moving this entire curated list away from Github altogether (this repo will then point to the new location). It will then become a delightful list on Codeberg instead, and show on the Delightful Club website too. Note: I created delightful project as alternative to awesome that is only for FOSS, Open Data and Open Science related resources.

tunjos commented 2 years ago

Your description is too long then.

Fixed. :)

Thanks for the hint and feedback by the way. Delightful.Club makes sense! And yes, I think there are lots of great projects that aren't FOSS. Cheers!

aschrijver commented 2 years ago

It is merged :smile:

PS. What I forgot to mention. You have a dangerous naming to your project, that might lead to a takedown request, though IANAL. You may consider another name, e.g. "MindfulFind" or something.

tunjos commented 2 years ago

Awesome! Thanks! 🔥 Thanks for the hint! Do you say this because of the "Google" Reference? @aschrijver

aschrijver commented 2 years ago

Mindful Google™ especially with the trademark attached can easily be confused or associated with Google itself, as something they created, support or endorse.

tunjos commented 2 years ago

@aschrijver So from what I understand as regards the Software world, signifies an unregistered trademark while ® signified a registered trademark. The former from what I know is used to show no ownership of the word(s) it appears after.

Here are popular extensions that have a similar naming:

Cheers!✌🏾