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Chrome extension by SageMod · Productivity · Workflow

  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 3 000 users, a small but real audience.

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

What the developer says, and 2 screenshots

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Users
3 000
Rating
4.3 (10 ratings)
Users, last 16 days
+1k
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
1.0.4
Updated in the store
2026-08-22
Published
2026-02-20
Manifest
V3
Browser access
2 permissions, 1 site pattern

How it has moved

Users
+1k since 01.09
2k-3k · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-012k
  2. 2026-09-042k
  3. 2026-09-063k
  4. 2026-09-163k
Rating
+0.17 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.12-4.30 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews8rating4.12
  2. 2026-09-04reviews9rating4.22
  3. 2026-09-06reviews10rating4.30
  4. 2026-09-16reviews10rating4.30
Users
+1k since 01.09
2k-3k · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-012k
  2. 2026-09-042k
  3. 2026-09-063k
  4. 2026-09-163k
Rating
+0.17 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.12-4.30 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews8rating4.12
  2. 2026-09-04reviews9rating4.22
  3. 2026-09-06reviews10rating4.30
  4. 2026-09-16reviews10rating4.30

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

SageMod publishes 3 listings we track, 103k users between them.

  1. ShortsBlocker - Remove Shorts from YouTube SageMod · Productivity · Workflow · published 2022-08-16 100k users ★ 4.5
  2. Ryddle AI: Chat with Webpages & PDFs SageMod · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-05-11 9 users

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Medium Helper Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 20 users ★ 4.8
  2. Right Click Freedium Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 206 users ★ 3.7
  3. Medium Premium Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 572 users ★ 1.8
  4. Freedium - Read Medium Articles Free Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 326 users ★ 5.0
  5. Medium Unlock Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 80k users ★ 4.4

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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