Steemed Phish Chrome Extension
- Steemed Phish is a Chrome extension that checks the current page URL and content and checks it against a whitelist and blacklist of known websites.
- The extension is made of three components:
- a background script that listens to URL changes and shows an alert if you land on a blacklisted website. It also changes the color of the extension icon: green for recognized friendly websites, red for recognized scam websites and grey for neutral websites.
- a content script that injects a Javascript and CSS code into whitelisted websites.
- the CSS code changes the color of the built-in Steemit Condenser icon that marks external links and turn it red instead of the less visible grey (see screenshot below).
- the Javascript code scans all the links within the page and turn them red / stricken through if they are leading to a blacklisted website
- the Javascript code will also cover a blacklisted website with a full page red warning with a link to go back to Steemit.com (see screenshot below)
- a popup code that currently just show how to contact me to add more websites to the whitelist or blacklist
Screenshots
Fullpage warning
Alert dialog
External links marking and blacklisted links highlighting
Technology Stack
- Javascript
- CSS
Roadmap
- Improve the popup screen and add a contact form to make it easier to contact me for blacklisting, whitelisting and feedbacks.
- Improve the quality of the icon
- Improve detection logic
- Monitor Steemit for user reports and analyze the type of scam and see if the extension can help
How to contribute?
Even a Chrome extension can be used for scamming users so always be careful of what you are installing. This project is made open source and every one can verify its code.
If you are an extension developer and would like to add new features, you can make a Pull Request here:
https://github.com/quochuy/steemedphish
How to install
Just head to the Chrome Webstore page below and click on the "Add To Chrome":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/steemed-phish/eiaigalhddmmpdnehcigmlmgllomljgj
Update v0.0.19:
@quochuy/steemed-phish-v0-0-16-adding-a-tooltip-to-external-links
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