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Ask HN: Why Grammarly browser extension is not supported on HN?
Grammarly browser extension is not supported on Hackernews: "For technical reasons, we currently do not check your text on this website."
screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JlJ23ab.png
I wonder what technical reasons could there be? HN seems like a pretty straightforward site with valid html tags like `textarea`.
- sesuximo 5y agoOT: My only exposure to grammarly is YouTube ads, and I noticed they often show women struggling to write (I think 3/4 of their actors are female). Two theories: - grammarly is subtly sexist - most characters in ads are women Anyway I never had an outlet for this thought so posting here
- oriettaxx 5y agothat's one of the worst in term of privacy get rid of it! just cut & paste in their website the cut & paste back