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25th July 2024 - Link Blog

Button Stealer (via) Really fun Chrome extension by Anatoly Zenkov: it scans every web page you visit for things that look like buttons and stashes a copy of them, then provides a page where you can see all of the buttons you have collected. Here's Anatoly's collection, and here are a few that I've picked up trying it out myself:

The extension source code is on GitHub. It identifies potential buttons by looping through every <a> and <button> element and applying some heuristics like checking the width/height ratio, then clones a subset of the CSS from window.getComputedStyle() and stores that in the style= attribute.