v0.1.5

ApplyW v0.1.5 — Which filter is actually doing the work

You've been hiding jobs, blocking companies and filtering by language and keyword for a
few versions now. This release answers the obvious next question: which of those is
actually earning its keep?

What's new

Metrics

ApplyW now keeps a running count of how many listings each filter has taken out of your
results, and ranks them.

• Every filter, side by side — hidden by you, blocked company, excluded word, missing
  required word, language, already applied, already viewed. Shown as a share of the whole
  and as a ranked list, so "language filtering saves me more than blocking ever has" is a
  thing you can just read off the page.
• Which words are pulling their weight — expand the excluded-word row to see each word
  you've excluded and how many listings it caught. If a word has never matched anything,
  now you know.
• A listing is counted once, under one reason. Scrolling the same search back and
  forth doesn't inflate anything, and the parts add up to the total.

Where to find it: applyw.chudnovskyi-v.workers.dev/#metrics

The page asks your own copy of the extension for the numbers, inside your browser. There
is no account, no upload, and no server involved — if you uninstall ApplyW, the page has
nothing to show.

A website

ApplyW now has a home page: what it does, a playable demonstration of the filters, and
the metrics page above.

applyw.chudnovskyi-v.workers.dev — no
analytics, no cookies, nothing stored in your browser.

Worth knowing

• Counting starts now. The tally begins the first time you use ApplyW after updating,
  so expect it to sit at zero for a moment. Everything you hid before this version still
  stays hidden — it just isn't counted retroactively.
• A listing that matches several of your excluded words is counted once in the total, but
  once per word in the word breakdown. That's on purpose: they answer different questions,
  and the page says so where it matters.

Privacy

Unchanged in substance, and now spelled out in more detail in the
privacy policy: the counts are
stored locally alongside everything else, only the ApplyW site may read them, and nothing
about your browsing is collected, transmitted or shared. Still no backend, no analytics,
no account.

Install

Chrome Web Store: Install ApplyW

Already installed? Chrome updates extensions on its own schedule; to pull it in now, open
chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and press Update.

Full changelog: v0.1.4...v0.1.5