Muteastupidcolleague: private silence for Google Meet

Why it surfaced

The tool solves an unusually specific social problem with a three-step voice-matching routine: watch the blue activity bar, identify the speaker, then mute that audio lane. It is privacy-conscious and technically candid—the extension says it records or uploads nothing—but must be unpacked and loaded through Chrome’s Developer mode rather than installed from the Chrome Web Store.

A Chrome extension that lets one user mute a single Google Meet speaker locally, without changing what anyone else hears.