Which one is the real The Great Suspender?

[longlongvip]

I find some The Great Suspenders in Chrome Web Store, but which one is true?

• The Great Suspender Original
• The Great Suspender 1
• The Great Suspender 2
• The Marvellous Suspender

[wylie39]

NONE OF THEM. The original got taken down. I would recommend the marvelous suspender as a good alternative.

[longlongvip]

NONE OF THEM. The original got taken down. I would recommend the marvelous suspender as a good alternative.

I get it

[baz357]

I find some The Great Suspenders in Chrome Web Store, but which one is true?

• The Great Suspender Original
• The Great Suspender 1
• The Great Suspender 2
• The Marvellous Suspender

Yes, this is really confusing... all 3 The Great Suspender extensions have different version numbers (file sizes are also not the same). What a mess.

I'm currently using The Marvellous Suspender.

[mrizkimaulidan]

NONE OF THEM. The original got taken down. I would recommend the marvelous suspender as a good alternative.

what happen with the original?

[kiratheone]

NONE OF THEM. The original got taken down. I would recommend the marvelous suspender as a good alternative.

what happen with the original?

You can check this issue #1263 @mrizkimaulidan

[aka3eka]

NONE OF THEM. The original got taken down. I would recommend the marvelous suspender as a good alternative.

what happen with the original?

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/09/we-no-longer-recommend-the-chrome-extension-the-great-suspender-here-is-why/

[varenc]

I would recommend this one: https://github.com/aciidic/thegreatsuspender-notrack

I like it because the code is easily readable and it does the same thing the old great suspender did. Also I trust that the hive mind has audited the few changes to the code since the project was forked. You do need to jump through hoops to install a chrome extension from source that way, but the readme explains it. The extensions on the Chrome Store might be fine, and might even be the same code, but it's a bit more tedious to inspect the source code and look for changes. A bet at least one is malicious. Also with a Web Store extension the author can update the code remotely whenever they want. By installing the source directly you'll know that the code never changes unless you change it.

( It's actually pretty ironic. The extensions on the Chrome Web Store are dubious, but the non-Google audited extensions on Github are more trusted )