Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

48•yakshaving_jgt•3h ago

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cyanydeez•2h ago

someone needs to update it to V3.

dejobaan•2h ago

I loved this one back in the day, and have referenced it within the past month. The author felt that simply changing "cloud" to "butt" was less funny. But that always brings to mind the 1994 TSR mage-to-wizard search-and-replace: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/s82mi4/til_that_in_199...

radpanda•2h ago

I worked at a three-letter agency when the prefix “cyber-” became widely used, and widely disliked. I remember someone there distributed a similar browser extension that changed every instance of “cyber” to “computery”.

bigstrat2003•2h ago

I love the cloud to butt extension, but eventually had to disable it. It would occasionally interfere with the correct operation of sites I visited, and that wasn't worth the amusement of seeing "store your data in my butt" etc.

DonHopkins•2h ago

The extension-free, euphemism-treadmill solution is for everyone to regularly use and read "cloud" as if it were "butt". And anybody who doesn't like it can kiss my cloud!

stackedinserter•2h ago

You hate cloud, we got it, but there are many other word replacement extensions, why is this one worth 1st page of HN?

jaggs•2h ago

Chill? :)

Sharlin•2h ago

I mean, I wonder about it as well, given that it’s, what, ten years old now and cloud hasn’t been the buzzword in vogue in a long time. Today we need something-like AI-to-butt converter. “We are a ‘my butt first’ company”, “We expect everyone to use my butt at work”, “powered by my butt”…

jaggs•2h ago

LOL

chuckadams•2h ago

No need to get all cloudhurt over it.

Dotnaught•2h ago

I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni...

https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies

delduca•2h ago

We need one for AI :-)

quectophoton•2h ago

Related comment from a recent thread that I can't unsee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152476

mrweasel•2h ago

Just replace AI with "Florida man".

blamazon•2h ago

Someone at Amazon hilariously uploaded a job description that was filtered through this extension:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819

> Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?

ocdtrekkie•2h ago

I really have to emphasize that nobody should ever install an extension like this. In exchange for a cheap chuckle you are letting a random individual have the access to read and modify the contents of every website you view. And as long as they don't change the permissions they can silently update the extension whenever they want.

If you think this is okay, you should not ever work on anything involving security or private data access, ever.

quectophoton•2h ago

Alternatively, cloud->clown.

Clown Computing, Clownflare, Google Clown Platform, etc.

JJMcJ•2h ago

Finally, an open source project that actually meets an urgent need we didn't realized we had.