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  "description": "Over the weekend, X's head of product Nikita Bier dropped a nuclear bomb - it showed country of origin if a user looked at another users \"about\" section. The amount of \"tradwife\", pro-MAGA, pro-Euronationalism etc accounts that turned out to be from India, Saudi, Thailand or Nigeria was staggering.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T17:53:37.000Z",
  "site": "https://dabitch.net",
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  "textContent": "X-flag-verifiedX-flag-verified.zip66 KBdownload-circle\n\nBut what we _really really_ want, is flags next to usernames - so I wrote a plugin for chrome that shows just that. You can download the zip above.\n\nAt first Nikita showed only users their _own_ about page, where everyone could double-check that things were correct. This was even open for a full hour for anyone to see anyone else, but I think I was asleep when that happened. My profile stated correctly how old the account is, and where it was created in the \"Date joined\" part. Like so:\n\nAccount created in Sweden. True.\n\nThis is accurate, and not a secret, so I had no problem with that - but a lot of people did. People who bought accounts would obviously want to hide if that account was created in a country they've never been to, for example.\nNikita claimed in a Xeet that this field showed inaccurate data for a lot of users, so they simply removed it.\n\nNow I'm verified with ID too!\n\nBut what we all really wanted was a simpler way to identify where people are Xeeting from - **like a flag by their usernames**. So I made one, and this is what it looks like on my account. The US flag before my name. Now when I scroll X using my Chrome browser, I see flags next almost everyones user name.\n\nIf you want to use this, simply download these files, X-flag-verified.zip and open it somewhere on your computer.\n\nThen load up **chrome://extensions/** in your browser and toggle on \"developer mode\". Then \"Load unpacked\" and select the directory x-flag-verified and Bob's your uncle.\n\nUPDATE: Shoutout to @bashildy on X who helped me fix this for Windows!\n\nOptionally you can remove all the other annoying flags that people put in their profiles, if you simply uncomment the line in content.js below :\n\n\n    Optional: prevent double flags if user already has one in their name\n\nI'm still working on this to see if there are any other fun things that I can add, since the government ID verification doesn't quite work yet, but I'm just too impatient not to share this right now. A lot of caching issues on the X \"about page\" currently is slowing down my bugtesting. Check back in a day or so and there might be more features.\n\nIf you find this useful, I like ko-fi and I like subscribers!",
  "title": "Country of origin displayed as flags on X - a chrome plugin.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-14T17:52:01.092Z"
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