HACKER Q&A
📣 jerrygoyal

Why Grammarly browser extension is not supported on HN?


Grammarly browser extension is not supported on Hackernews: "For technical reasons, we currently do not check your text on this website."

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JlJ23ab.png

I wonder what technical reasons could there be? HN seems like a pretty straightforward site with valid html tags like `textarea`.


  👤 sesuximo Accepted Answer ✓
OT:

My only exposure to grammarly is YouTube ads, and I noticed they often show women struggling to write (I think 3/4 of their actors are female). Two theories:

- grammarly is subtly sexist

- most characters in ads are women

Anyway I never had an outlet for this thought so posting here


👤 oriettaxx
that's one of the worst in term of privacy

get rid of it!

just cut & paste in their website the cut & paste back