Safari extension that replaces keyword(s) with my own word/phrase

September 24, 2018 9:58 AM

This should be SO simple: is there a Safari extension that will replace a word or phrase with one of my choosing? Fake example: whenever the word "dog" occurs on a page, replace it with "fluffy happy beast" so I never have to see the word "dog" again. Searching the Safari Extensions hasn't yielded any results for me but surely this exists.

Basically I want to censor the web but only for a handful of words that personally make me really bummed out, I don't want to block profanity or porn/nudity.

I know this exists for other browsers and am looking only for a solution for Safari.

posted by the thorn bushes have roses to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Without knowing if it works with the new Safari (most recent update put additional restrictions up for extensions), this one looks fairly easily hackable for whatever you like. Just a bunch of regex that's not bad to backwards-engineer.

Here's another, even simpler.
posted by supercres at 10:04 AM on September 24, 2018

Response by poster: Clarification: I reeaaaaalllly don't want to have to take an existing extension and modify it (though I forgot about the Millenials > Snake People thing and will totes install that anyway.)
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 10:15 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Actually, that "snake people" extension no longer works, supercres, so I should further clarify that the extension needs to be in the Safari Extensions store to work for my purposes.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 10:17 AM on September 24, 2018

Best answer: As of right now, at least, Tampermonkey works in Safari 12. I switched to it for my own custom Javascript needs after the thing I was previously using to run userscripts was effectively killed off by the new restrictions. You'd have to install that and then find, edit, or create a userscript that did the word substitution you want, but it's definitely capable of enabling the behavior you want.
posted by fedward at 10:27 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: For anyone reading this in the future: I just finally got annoyed enough to solve this issue today by editing a script. While there wasn't an actual extension or Tampermonkey script that just did what I wanted, I was able to very easily edit this dubious (possibly MRA created?) Tampermonkey script to do what I wanted with my own find/replace terms.

Annoyingly, this script called "Replace Text on Websites" that is exactly what I wanted did not work and the reviews indicate it never did.

It was super easy to do this in Chrome using this extension, but I prefer Safari for most of my web browsing so it's great to have found a solution. Thanks for nudging me in the direction of Tampermonkey!
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 2:43 PM on March 14, 2019 [1 favorite]