I asked a member of the webspam team to prototype the extension after reading this Hacker News comment on January 1st: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584

I asked a member of the webspam team to prototype the extension after reading this Hacker News comment on January 1st: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2058408 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2058408 We've absolutely done similar things in the past, but that comment was the spark behind this most recent Chrome extension. I hope that's specific enough. :)