Inspiration
We were inspired by convenient Chrome extensions that we use (such as Grammarly or Honey) that make our online experiences better. We thought we could combine these tools with personalized cybersecurity recommendations to better our community's data protection.
What it does
Cookie Monster takes information about the cookies a webpage is storing and uses the Perplexity AI generative model to send warnings about what information a user is giving to the website. It also has functionality to free cookies that unnecessarily take up users' browser storage.
How we built it
We used Partyrock in order to help us generate the back end code for this project. We also used Perplexity API in order to send AI generated warnings about the cookies stored by the website. The rest of the extension was built using Chrome developer tools, Javascript, and HTML.
Challenges we ran into
Understanding how the javascript files interacted with both the Chrome information and Perplexity API was challenging. We used Partyrock and other sources to inform how we went about debugging this issue.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of the functionality we were able to implement within 24 hours. Cookie Monster already helps people understand more about how cookies use their information.
What we learned
We learned how to develop a Chrome extension and use Generative AI API.
What's next for Cookie Monster
We hope to fully implement more functionality around removing cookies and a better UI.
Built With
- ai
- chrome
- generative
- html
- javascript
- partyrock
- perplexity
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