Chrome extension replaces Google’s algorithmic canned replies with equally random lines of poetry

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Google traditionally plagues the internet with April Fools’ gags on April 1st, but developer Chris Zubak-Skees has beaten the internet giant at its own game today with Suggested poems, a Chrome extension that replaces Google’s algorithmically generated canned replies with random lines of poetry.


Introducing Suggested poems for Gmail, a Chrome extension that replaces Gmail suggested replies with lines of poetic verse! https://t.co/Xd8oYFLMkW pic.twitter.com/FnRMyxkiEk

— Chris Zubak-Skees (@zubakskees) April 1, 2019

As Zubak-Skees clarifies in his thread, the extension is “absolutely not” endorsed by Google in any way. But honestly, his tweak is better since it’s totally opt-in by requiring you to intentionally install a Chrome...

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