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frank-masciopinto/no-kings

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TLDR

A browser extension that shows who owns the website in your active tab, including Big Three index fund stakes and real voting control.

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  root((No Kings))
    What it does
      Identifies site owner
      Shows Big Three stake
      Flags real voting control
    Tech stack
      JavaScript
      Manifest V3
      Wikidata lookup
    Use cases
      Browse with ownership context
      Manual domain lookup
      Spot founder controlled firms
    Audience
      General users
      Researchers
    Setup
      Load unpacked extension
      Enable developer mode
      Optional API key

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Check which parent company owns a website you are browsing, with one click.

USE CASE 2

See how much combined stake Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street hold in a company.

USE CASE 3

Find out whether a company is actually controlled by a founder or family despite Big Three ownership.

USE CASE 4

Look up ownership for any domain manually through the extension's popup query.

What is it built with?

JavaScriptChrome ExtensionManifest V3Wikidata

How does it compare?

frank-masciopinto/no-kingsvoidsignals/polymarket-trading-botmo-tunn/openguider
Stars146146144
LanguageJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasy
Complexity2/5
Audiencegeneraldevelopergeneral

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MIT license: use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

No Kings is a browser extension for Chrome, Brave, and Edge that tells you who owns the website you are currently looking at. For the domain in your active tab, it identifies the parent company, how much combined stake the three largest index fund managers, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street, hold in it, and who actually holds voting control when that control belongs to a founder, family, or dual class share structure instead of those big three. The extension works mostly offline, using a built in static dataset of around 40 tracked companies for instant results. If a domain is not in that dataset, it falls back to looking up the parent company chain through Wikidata, which needs no API key. Users can optionally add a Financial Modeling Prep API key to pull live institutional ownership percentages instead of the static, rounded figures. A toolbar badge shows the combined Big Three percentage, color coded into bands: heavily held at 15 percent or more, partly held between 8 and 15 percent, lightly held under 8 percent, a separate marker for private companies where the ownership claim does not apply, and a grey marker for domains not in the database at all. There is also an optional desktop notification when a site crosses a chosen threshold. To install it, you clone or download the repository, open the browser's extensions page, turn on developer mode, and load the folder as an unpacked extension. No account or sign in is required, and the README states that data stays local unless the user chooses to enable live lookups with their own API key. The README is upfront that the static percentages are rounded and not live filings, that index fund ownership is mostly ordinary, since it represents millions of pension and retirement account holders rather than a single owner, and that many companies flagged this way are still actually controlled by founders or families through dual class stock. The project is released under the MIT license.

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Prompt 1
Walk me through loading this Chrome extension as an unpacked extension in developer mode.
Prompt 2
Explain how this extension resolves ownership for a domain that is not in its static database.
Prompt 3
How do I add my own Financial Modeling Prep API key to get live ownership data in this extension.
Prompt 4
Help me add a new domain and its parent company to the data.js file in this project.

Frequently asked questions

What is no-kings?

A browser extension that shows who owns the website in your active tab, including Big Three index fund stakes and real voting control.

What language is no-kings written in?

Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes JavaScript, Chrome Extension, Manifest V3.

What license does no-kings use?

MIT license: use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Who is no-kings for?

Mainly general.

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