Emojery at a glance

The whole thing as facts, 1 line each. Read the lines that matter to you and skip the rest.

The essentials

What it is	A small add-on for your browser.
What it adds	A reaction button on pages you already read, next to the site's own Like, Star or Upvote.
Which emoji	All of them, well past the handful the site chose.
To read the counts	Nothing. No account, no email.
To react yourself	An email address. No password, ever.
What others see	A total. Never a list of names.
Who can check the totals	Anyone, with a free program we don't control.
Price	Free. Donation-funded, open source, no ads.

The button

It appears in the row of buttons already there, on any supported page: a video, a post, a product, a code repository.
It shows the top 3 emoji other people picked, plus the running total.
Click it and a small panel opens with the full picture.
You pick from the whole emoji keyboard: 😂, 🤨, 🔥, 💀, 👎. See The signal platforms hide.
You can change your pick later, or take it back entirely.
Everyone using Emojery sees the same totals on the same page.
Your own picks live in a private history on your computer, and never leave your device.
There is no separate website to visit.

The number

Why any other count is a promise

40,000 likes, 300 upvotes, 5 stars. Whatever the company's computer says. Climbs overnight, quietly drops, and you never know. Emojery replaces the promise with 4 steps you can repeat yourself.

You tap an emoji The count on the page goes up.
It's written down in public Your tap becomes a line anyone can download.
The list is copied out of our reach A short summary goes where we don't control it.
Anyone can re-count A free program adds it up and compares.

The public list

1 line per reaction, in order. The formal name is a transparency log (details).
Lines are only added. Nothing is edited, nothing is erased.
Changed your emoji? Another line. Deleted your account? A line that cancels your old reactions.
The number on the page is that list, added up again.
No names in it. Each reaction carries a stand-in code that changes over time, so the list can't follow a person from page to page.
Anyone can download the whole thing.

The checkpoints

Regularly, the whole list is squeezed into 1 short string of characters: a checkpoint for that moment.
Change any old line and the checkpoint comes out completely different.
Checkpoints go to a public GitHub folder, emojery-log.
They're copied into public archives run by other organisations.
They're eventually stamped into Bitcoin.
We can change our own database. Nobody can change an old Bitcoin block — so a rewrite breaks every checkpoint already published, in public, permanently.

The verifier

A free program that does the checking for you (details).
Downloads the list, adds up every reaction itself, compares its total against the number the site shows.
Redoes every fingerprint and confirms they match the ones published outside.
Not part of our website or our extension — its own open-source project.
Read the code before trusting it; run a copy on a schedule and watch us daily.
No special access. It sees exactly what you see.

The edge of the claim

Proved: what's in the list, and that nothing was quietly removed.
Not proved: that a reason we give for removing something is truthful. No maths proves a motive.
What it does instead: a reversal applies to an account's entire history rather than to 1 inconvenient vote, and it shows up on a public feed anyone can watch.

The email

Needed only to react. Reading is free forever.
The reason: fresh browser profiles are free, instant and unlimited; email addresses that receive mail are not. It's the cheapest way to make one reaction mean one person.
The flow: type your address, get a code, paste it back. Done.
No password to invent, forget or leak — we never create one.
No "Continue with Google" or GitHub: those would tell Google or GitHub that you use Emojery (why).
After the code is delivered, the address is thrown away.
What's kept is a one-way scramble of it: a fixed string your email always produces under a key held outside the database.
The database lists no addresses, so a stolen copy of it yields none. We hold the key, so we can check one address you name against it.

What it can reach

Question	Emojery
Sites it may run on	The 9 it supports, plus its own. The browser refuses to load it anywhere else.
Sites it may not	Everything else. It isn't running there at all.
Who publishes that list	Your browser, read straight from the add-on's own file. Our marketing can't touch it.
What it reads on a page	2 things: where the button goes, and which item you're reacting to. The reading stays in your browser.
What leaves	An anonymous question — what are the counts for these items? If you react, also the item's address and your emoji.
What never leaves	Anything you type, and your own reaction history.
Private pages	No button at all.
Ads, trackers, data buyers	None. Donation-funded open source, so tracking would be an expense with nothing on the other side.

Permission by permission: Browser permissions. Things you can check yourself before installing: Before you install. The code: the repository.

Leaving

Uninstalling takes 2 clicks.
It removes everything stored on your computer, because your history was only ever there.
Made an account? The extension's own menu has a Delete account button.
Press it: the account record is gone, and a new line subtracts every reaction you left back out of the public totals.
The old pseudonymous lines stay, revoked rather than rubbed out.
No email to write, no support ticket, no "are you sure you want to lose your benefits" screen.

That's the sheet

Every line here has a longer page behind it. The unhurried version is How Emojery works.

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