Twitter, the browser extension that tells you who paid for the vignette

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With the introduction of the controversial paid blue sticker on Twitter, it is not immediate to understand who has previously received it directly from the platform and who has grabbed it in the last few days by spending the famous 8 dollars a month for the Blue subscription. In fact, you need a click or a tap on the sticker to open a window that informs you about the nature of the certification, but you just need to install a special browser extension to display a label directly on the page that divides the users with the sticker among those "actually verified" by those who "paid for verification".

The story of the paid verification stamp on Twitter is one of the first innovations introduced by the new owner of the social network, Elon Musk. Initially expected to be $ 20, the price dropped to $ 8 a month to show next to your name the coveted symbol of certification that until a few days ago was reserved for users "noteworthy in the category of institutions, current events, entertainment or another specific sector ". Born to fight the hated (by Musk) bots and impersonators, the function turned out to be a boomerang straight back in front of those who had seen it, between profiles that exploited the novelty for their own gain and very account protests. known, eventually suspended according to the new and often unclear regulations. However, it is having some success in countries where the Twitter Blue subscription that contains it is active and so here is an extension that unmasks who has paid for the certification.

The utility has an emblematic name, Eight Dollars or eight dollars, and can be installed natively on Chrome, but the New Zealand developer Walter Lim suggests how it should also work on Microsoft's Firefox and Edge without too many problems, while development for Safari is underway. It works very simply after installing it by downloading the package from GitHub and going through the developer options of the browser, you visit Twitter and when you open the profile of a user with a sticker a label will be shown that will inform about the nature of the sticker.