Avoiding Replacing Other People's Names

[SamTheEnby]

I use this on my school computer. This is the only one the district didn't block from changing site details so I was really excited to see that it had actually worked. I did notice that some other people in my class with my deadname also had their names changed to Sam. If there is any way to fix that in the future, I would recommend that, it got a little confusing. It would also be amazing if you were to add a pronoun change. I'm sure that would be difficult to code but seeing as how you did an absolutely amazing job with the deadname remover, I have no doubts. If there is a way I can support your code work, please let me know. I'm new to this platform so I don't know if you can DM me. But if so, I would love to support your future projects.

Thanks for this amazing extension!

[arimgibson]

Thanks for the feedback and suggestion @SamTheEnby, sorry for the delay here!

Unfortunately, it's not really possible to only change your name and not others who have similar names. Deadname Remover essentially works as a "find and replace" for the text on your screen, and there isn't an easy way to distinguish when someone is referring to you vs someone else unless they also use a last name. It would be possible to add an option in settings to only replace the person's name when their last name is also present, but that does come with downsides as well. If that setting were to be added and enabled, then names would not be replaced unless the last name was present.

Without last name check, using deadname "John Smith" and proper name "Alex Smith":

• "Hi John, hope this email finds you well!" -- changed to "Hi Alex, hope this email finds you well!"
• "John Smith" -- changed to "Alex Smith"
• "John Miller" -- changed to "Alex Miller" (not ideal)

With last name check:

• "Hi John, hope this email finds you well!" -- nothing changed
• "John Smith" -- changed to "Alex Smith"
• "John Miller" -- nothing changed

There's a trade-off made there, and it's hard to know which way is ideal. Adding a setting is good because it lets the user choose, but it's hard for me to determine the priority of a feature like that. Let me know if you have any thoughts about that explanation or other ideas! Definitely open to discussing, although it's not top of my list right now due to that trade-off.

Regarding pronouns, this is unfortunately not very practical. See #22.

Appreciate you wanting to support and help!!! There aren't DMs on GitHub, but my email is listed on my profile page ([email protected]). Feel free to reach out there if you'd still be interested, and I can keep your information handy. Right now most of my work is cleaning out these issues that have been neglected, and trying to move forward with a v2.0.0 release. :smile: