Turk Guru BETA | For MTurk

Turk Guru | For MTurk

Increase your mturk earnings by automating HIT acceptance based on your preferences and using Machine Learning. For Amazon Mechanical Turk(MTurk) workers, this browser extension helps workers increase their earnings by automatically accepting new tasks based on their pre-set preferences as soon as they are posted and provides features to enhance efficiency. ★ Accept tasks based on your liked and disliked tasks history. ★ Accept tasks that have favorite keywords. ★ Block tasks that contain blocked keywords. ★ Accept tasks only from favorite requesters. ★ Filter tasks based on requester hourly wage, activity level, approval rate. ★ Return tasks automatically when away from the desktop. ★ View HITs queue, new qualifications easily on every MTurk page. ★ Reactions by workers for HITs and requesters. This tool reduces the time workers spend searching for tasks and helps the user get high-paying tasks, resulting in higher earnings and increased efficiency. For any questions, comments, or suggestions, contact support@turk-guru.com. The beta version can be found here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turking-guru-beta/bcoojbcnbhappkcapafhmmldpnoemooc

Checkmark Ninja

This extension improves the workflow for our services. This extension is used internally by our Employees and Contractors to simplify some of the verification workflow, e.g. opening and closing tabs with information related to a verification task, extracting data from that related information. This extension is not meant to be used by the general public.

Loop11 User Testing

The Loop11 extension lets you participate in usability tests & is only active whilst completing a test for which you’ve opted in. Loop11 is a usability testing tools used by small and large companies from around the world. They use Loop11 to run tests on their websites and prototypes in order to ensure they have designed a good user experience. Once a test is created in Loop11, companies then recruit people to participate in their tests. This extension allows you to participate in these tests. The Loop11 extension will lay dormant and will only be active during a usability test which you have opted in to. A test will only begin after you have been given a specific URL and instructions on how to begin the test. The Loop11 extension will stop once the test is completed or exited. This extension may block or modify certain elements on webpages (DOM blocker) for the purpose of clickstream and heatmap tracking.

URL Historian

URL Historian - Enlightening the social impact of the web through your web use URL Historian is a Chrome extension developed by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP). URL Historian allows participants to share data that contributes to better understanding of how our ever-shifting online environment impacts politics and democracy. URL Historian collects browsing data from registered research participants who agree to be part of a study. When the plug-in is activated and registered, it automatically begins collecting URLs visited. Participants can pause this collection at any time through the extension interface. Participants can also block specific domains from being collected through a blacklist feature provided in the extension. Participants can also opt-in to sharing data from YouTube page Data collected through URL Historian is anonymized and used for academic purposes only. All collected data is securely stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and only accessible by CSMaP researchers. Participation in web browsing collection is completely voluntary. The extension also offers multiple options for allowing and limiting the types of data that are collected. URL Historian also allows participants to delete data that was shared for up to ten days after it was collected. If more than ten days have passed since data was collected, participants can contact NYU CSMaP Engineers at csmapsupport@nyu.edu to request their data be deleted. Please be aware that URL Historian collects the web browsing data of anyone using Google Chrome on the computer that URL Historian is installed on. If you share this computer with anyone, you should inform them that URL Historian is installed, and show them how they can pause the app and/or delete their browsing history when they use the computer. For more information on how to install and configure the URL Historian extension, visit https://www.csmapsurveys.org/csmap_url_historian.html. For any questions on using the extension, requesting data deletion, or other technical problems, please reach out to csmapsupport@nyu.edu. For more information about the Center for Social Media and Politics research, visit https://csmapnyu.org/.