HackCooper 2016 Project

Won Best Data Privacy Hack

Data privacy is of very importance to us. We don't want others tracking us what we do every time we click on a link (Psst .. Google). What if we could preview what the content of the link is about before we make the decision to actually click on it?

Hover over a link and you will get a small snippet of what the link is about just like that of an abstract of a research paper. Clicking on the notification will display more information.

Using a Chrome extension as the frontend and Flask at the backend, we grabbed the url of the link and using PyTeaser to summarize the contents of the link.

1. Clone project
2. Load unpacked extension in Chrome
3. Install python packages by running pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run python main.py to start the Flask server
5. Hover over a link for 1-2 seconds and you should get a notification!
6. Click the notification to read more

• Using chrome extension notifications in the content script, when it is only allowed in background script.
• jQuery not working properly in the extension.
• Non-reliable summaries provided by PyTeaser for web pages other than news articles.

Able to get a basic MVP.

Using a backend to receive the AJAX GET request and sending back a response.

• Add pictures to the notification
• Use a more reliable API for summarizing or make own