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Balancer

2.5

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Author:
Sean Munson

Category:
News & Weather

Version:
0.6.4

Users:
160

Rating:
2.5

Size:
416KiB

Price:
Free

Updated:
June 03, 2015

Webstore Link:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/balancer/ildjajkfehjgdjjjpmliojhcpemgieob

Developer's site:
http://balancestudy.org/balancer

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version 0.6.4  - Download ZIP file

Description

Balancer analyses your web browsing to show you the political slant of your reading history. If you get way out of balance, we may even give you reading suggestions.

HOW IT WORKS
Balancer classifies pages based on their address: does this source tend to get linked to by mostly liberals or conservatives? Is it regularly visited by liberals, conservatives, or a mix? This is imperfect, but in aggregate, it's pretty good.

YOU SHOULD KNOW
This is a research project. Balancer transmits a portion of your browsing history — sites matching a list of known news sites — to us. We do not ask for any personally identifiable information and cannot link your history back to you, only to your extension.

After you install the extension, you'll be asked to complete a brief (4 minute) survey. This helps us with our research. You may stop participation at any time by uninstalling the extension.

If you have questions, you can email us at [email protected].

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What has inspired us?

Extore is a team of professionals who are passionate about creating extensions for web browsers. This devotion also gives us opportunity to appreciate work of other people. We get inspired by useful, open source extensions made by developers all over the world. Our strong belief is that one should share helpful add-ons with others. That’s why we’d like to present you our ever-growing list of favourite extensions that have inspired us. Moreover, as you probably have already learned, sometimes struggling for the best brings an end to the good. Talking about add-ons it often turns out that an upgrade is worse then previous version. Also it can become really tricky to get back to the beloved version of your favourite extension. That’s why we’re going to make not only the latest, but all versions of our favourite (and we hope yours too) add-ons available for download. No more compromises, just stick to the version you really like!