Tampermonkey

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Tampermonkey, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Tampermonkey's interface is terrible to use on a phone2025-07-30
Editor assumes 4-space indentation and can't be changed to suit the user2023-02-17
Hard to get download URLs because they live in React Fiber state, requiring DOM traversal and React internals knowledge2022-07-30
Maintaining browser plugins and scripts after updates creates cognitive overhead and breakage2022-04-25
User scripts run slowly after moving to TamperMonkey, so the author rewrote them2019-07-30