I built PROOFER - Privacy first Chrome extension that proofreads your texts using Gemma 4
PROOFER is a privacy-focused Chrome extension designed to proofread text directly within various web platforms. It allows users to select text and receive proofreading suggestions without leaving their current tab, enhancing workflow efficiency. The extension supports multiple editing styles and prioritizes user privacy by enabling local model configurations.
- ▪PROOFER integrates proofreading directly into web platforms like Discord and email clients.
- ▪Users can select text and receive suggestions via a floating action button or keyboard shortcut.
- ▪The extension supports various editing styles, including proofreading, rephrasing, and shortening.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/samirmishra27/i-built-proofer-chrome-extension-that-proofreads-your-texts-using-gemma-4-3am7 |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 23:22:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T23:37:34.938Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T23:37:34.938Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | hw8IIn1QE6f- |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1165714) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Samir Posted on May 24 I built PROOFER - Privacy first Chrome extension that proofreads your texts using Gemma 4 #devchallenge #gemmachallenge #gemma #javascript Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built I built PROOFER, a privacy first browser extension that helps me proofread text right where I am already typing, whether that is an email draft, a Discord message, a social post, or any other…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at DEV.to (Top).
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