Official Launch “No Stress Booking” – blocks stressing messages on booking sites

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6 years ago

Hi everyone, My name is Assaf, and several months ago I've built a Chrome extension that hides all the dark patterns and behavioral manipulative messages that litter the experience of searching and booking. I called it “No Stress Booking” since that’s what it does :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-stress-booking/kkfmoaflbacidmgmkddkhjfdepckmggg

It basically started as a tool for myself, while using Booking.com. The red blinking messages were just too much for me, so I hid them. And then moved to another site. And then I've sent it to my friends, and it got some nice attention all around. Today it has around 1700 Weekly active users with a tremendous 5 stars score in the chrome web store (almost 200 voters.)

The extension is pretty straight forward. When you're visiting a site that uses such techniques, you'll see a nice guy on a hammock on the bottom left side of the screen. Clicking on it, and it will make all of the messages disappear. I also need to say that every message is specifically selected. there's no "one rule for all". There's no "remove all the red boxes" mechanism. I simply play with the platform, letting it show me all the big cannons so I can kill them one by one. As for now, the extension supports Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Viagogo, Hotels.com, Kayak, OneTravel, and others and I'm willing to add more based on users feedback, so if you know more annoying sites like Booking.com - let me know :)

The extension does not track, store, collect or do any shit on the site, except hiding these messages.

I would love to hear your thought and inputs or even more sites that should be supported.

Thanks Assaf

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