{"slug": "tweeks", "name": "Tweeks", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 1, "score": 2.081, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2025-11-13", "why": "this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Tweeks"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 734770208, "item_id": 45923138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923138", "by": "thejosh", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche", "excerpt": "WOW. Okay, this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche, as you mentioned it's kinda a combination of things like Stylus/uBlock Origin filters and custom filters/etc. This is really needed, as for example GitHub code preview is completely and utterly fucked, to put it lightly. Showing symbols, not being able to select code properly without weird visual glitches happening..... requires a bunch of scripts to fix", "context": "", "use_case": "fixing websites with browser tweaks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734692144, "item_id": 45918259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918259", "by": "glenstein", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things.", "excerpt": "Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things. Also, perhaps the first practical use case for LLM-In-The-Browser I've seen in the wild (sidebars or AI startpages are very half-posterier'd ideas for what AI in the browser should mean imo). Like some others here, Firefox is my daily driver and would look forward to anything you could bring our way.", "context": "Firefox daily driver", "use_case": "browser customization", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734667776, "item_id": 45916736, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916736", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love this, but also wonder how this plays out", "excerpt": "I love this, but also wonder how this plays out when tooling designed to de-enshittify is owned by a YC startup that must have some sort of future exit.", "context": "", "use_case": "de-enshittifying the web", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 734686146, "item_id": 45917884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917884", "by": "oidar", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't see a path to monetization here.", "excerpt": "Listen, I love customizing the web - I use Greasemonkey extensively - but I don't see a path to monetization here. Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey exist, for free. Why would someone pay for this? AI generation is neat, but once a script is creating and working - why wouldn't a user just hop over to Claude and remake the script? Besides burning tokens - these free alternatives exist. An API price hike could make it fall", "context": "", "use_case": "customizing websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}]}], "who": [{"by": "glenstein", "context": "Firefox daily driver", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918259", "date": "2025-11-13"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["browser customization", "fixing websites with browser tweaks", "customizing youtube", "customizing websites", "de-enshittifying the web"], "compared": [{"slug": "greasemonkey", "name": "Greasemonkey", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ublock-origin", "name": "uBlock Origin", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525", "title": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web", "mentions": 6}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 734770208, "item_id": 45923138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923138", "by": "thejosh", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche", "excerpt": "WOW. Okay, this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche, as you mentioned it's kinda a combination of things like Stylus/uBlock Origin filters and custom filters/etc. This is really needed, as for example GitHub code preview is completely and utterly fucked, to put it lightly. Showing symbols, not being able to select code properly without weird visual glitches happening..... requires a bunch of scripts to fix", "context": "", "use_case": "fixing websites with browser tweaks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734759856, "item_id": 45922491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922491", "by": "eejdoowad", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "although its got the rough edges of a prototype, the potential is there.", "excerpt": "Cool idea and onboarding experience. I spun up Chrome to demo it, and although its got the rough edges of a prototype, the potential is there. I created a rule to remove thumbnails and shorts from YouTube, and after a few failed attempts, it succeeded! But there were massive tracts of empty space where the images were before. With polish and an accessible way to find and apply vetted addons so that you don't have to ", "context": "", "use_case": "customizing YouTube", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734716768, "item_id": 45919798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919798", "by": "ryanmerket", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Man I love this, but this isn't a business.", "excerpt": "Man I love this, but this isn't a business. Facebook, Reddit, et al will almost certainly C&D you and eventually sue you for violating their policies. \"Facebook does not have a specific policy against Greasemonkey like extensions by name, but it has banned users for creating or using scripts that interfere with Facebook's functionality, which can include those made with Greasemonkey. Such actions are against Facebook", "context": "", "use_case": "browser customization", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734692144, "item_id": 45918259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918259", "by": "glenstein", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things.", "excerpt": "Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things. Also, perhaps the first practical use case for LLM-In-The-Browser I've seen in the wild (sidebars or AI startpages are very half-posterier'd ideas for what AI in the browser should mean imo). Like some others here, Firefox is my daily driver and would look forward to anything you could bring our way.", "context": "Firefox daily driver", "use_case": "browser customization", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734686146, "item_id": 45917884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917884", "by": "oidar", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't see a path to monetization here.", "excerpt": "Listen, I love customizing the web - I use Greasemonkey extensively - but I don't see a path to monetization here. Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey exist, for free. Why would someone pay for this? AI generation is neat, but once a script is creating and working - why wouldn't a user just hop over to Claude and remake the script? Besides burning tokens - these free alternatives exist. An API price hike could make it fall", "context": "", "use_case": "customizing websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}, {"id": 734667776, "item_id": 45916736, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916736", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love this, but also wonder how this plays out", "excerpt": "I love this, but also wonder how this plays out when tooling designed to de-enshittify is owned by a YC startup that must have some sort of future exit.", "context": "", "use_case": "de-enshittifying the web", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) \u2013 Browser extension to deshittify the web"}]}