Jens Oliver Meiert

A Chromium Browser Extension to Counter Warmongering, Genocidal, Misanthropic Actors

Published on Jul 27, 2025, filed under , (feed). (Share this on Mastodon or Bluesky?)

TL;DR: AWAGAM is a Chromium browser extension that takes user blocklists to block warmongering, genocidal, and misanthropic actors (as well as respond to other evils).

I built one more Chromium extension, this time a bit selfishly, to enforce my war, genocide, and misanthropy policy: AWAGAM (source).

Early screenshot of AWAGAM extension popup.
Extension controls.

The extension is entirely user-configurable by means of JSON-based blocklists. (In fact, it blocks nothing by default.)

Early screenshot of AWAGAM extension blocklist management.
Blocklist management.

You can try the extension using one of my original sample blocklists. wars+genocides.json, for example, handles high-level blocks on major war and genocide state actors as defined by Wikipedia.

You can also create and host your own blocklist, which I’m open to reviewing and linking to from the sample blocklists overview.

Blocks can temporarily be lifted, allowing to gracefully handle exceptions.

The documentation has all the details.

If you find an issue, please report it. The extension works, but needs to be tested a bit more widely.

A final note, use AWAGAM responsibly. It’s not meant as a “cancel culture” instrument—that approach requires omniscience and has probably been feeding the Far Right. Instead, it’s a civil, non-violent instrument to counter actors that our and other countries fail to confront and stop. As with nations that start wars, commit genocides, and fuel misanthropy.

About Me

Jens Oliver Meiert, on November 9, 2024.

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I’ve been working as a technical lead and engineering manager for companies you’ve never heard of and companies you use every day, I’m an occasional contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development and engineering management, but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (I value you being critical, interpreting charitably, and giving feedback.)