Anti-"Fishing" Extension

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  Picture of the extension when you first open it.

Inspiration

• When we saw the prompt "Online Safety" we automatically thought of the times we encountered random links on discord that seemed suspicious. In order to protect others from this paranoia and the possibility of being scammed, we created an extension that checks the "fishiness" of the site based on various factors

What it does

• When a user submits a link into the program, a check is made on the site that determines if the content on the site is suspicious or not. Additionally, the url is checked based on a few factors that many scam websites share. Then, the program returns a % rating based on how suspicious the link is.

How we built it

• Blood, sweat, and tears (Html, Java script, css, and json)

Challenges we ran into

• A challenge we ran into was trying to implement the scraper onto the program. We eventually solved this by scouring useful resources such as stackoverflow/

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We didn't lose our sanity :D

What we learned

• How to scrape a site
• How to make a chrome extension
• More advanced css, javascript, and html functions

What's next for Anti-Phishing Extension

• Implement machine learning to better determine the "fishiness"
• Integrate the API of other sites such as Virus Total
• Implement more advanced factors to better determine the "fishiness"
• Implement a fun game to play when bored

Thanks for reading this!

• Sam & Priscilla

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• json