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24 alternatives to I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
Replace scary zero-width characters with funny emojis - elchiapp/zero-width-chrome-extension
This Chrome extension reveals zero-width characters hidden in text. Zero-width characters are invisible characters that can be embedded in content for various purposes. The extension is useful for anyone who needs to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Chrome extension to detect, highlight, and sanitize text with zero-width characters. - roymckenzie/detect-zero-width-characters-chrome-extension
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome Extensions to find and notify the user of zero-width unicode characters. - aido179/zwBlocker
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroBlur▲266Blur sensitive information and share screen with confidence
2021 · divbyzero.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · eligrey.com · its alternatives →
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I built a demo of two Unicode steganography techniques, zero-width characters and homoglyph substitution, in the context of AI misalignment. The first is about the use of two invisible zero-width characters (ZWS and ZWNJ) to binary encode text. The second is much cooler. Most characters in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets look nearly identical, but have different unicode. If you have text to encode and convert it into binary representation (1s and 0s), you could take plain english "carrier" text and for each 1 in the binary representation you could substitute the Cyrillic letter equivalent.…
Apr 2026 · steganography.patrickvuscan.com · its alternatives →
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Zero-Width fingerprinting. Contribute to vedhavyas/zwfp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Detect and identify hidden unicode in text strings
2024 · invisiblecharacterviewer.com · its alternatives →
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Preach!▲101Inserts a 👏 emoji after all the words in text
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Sometimes you might want to share a screenshot of the website you're on, without revealing the personal data that is visible at that time. With Obfuscate, you can make text unreadable without changing the structure of the web page. Hit the extension button or press Alt+Shift+O to activate for the current page. (Note that extensions can't modify the add-on website, so trying it on there won't work.) Credit for the original idea: https://chaos.social/@maris/108379386421123630
2022 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Darkness▲269Dark themes for Google, Facebook and more
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Emoji Magic▲77Search for emojis with thesaurus matching
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Add emojis 😲 as you type ⌨ on the web 🌐
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · owencampbellmoore.com · its alternatives →
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Favioli▲103Chrome extension that replaces blank favicons with emoji
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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NeatEmoji▲113Chrome extension that converts text to emoji anywhere
2024 · neatrat.com · its alternatives →
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Hide spoilers, profanity, politics, distractions by keywords
Nov 2025 · filter-everything-online.com · its alternatives →
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