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Banish the Kardashians from the web
- jakejake 11y agoPossibly the greatest use of iOSs new web filtering API. Excellent work.
- frozenport 11y agoHerold of a dystopian future where individuals isolate themselves, and become increasingly radical in a bubble formed by their personal bias. Is there anything I can use to block Republicans? :-)
- mef 11y agoherald
- stock_toaster 11y agoMaybe Harold was a time traveller! Harold Titor perhaps? ;)
- akiselev 11y agoOr the herald of a utopian future where human beings have the ability to exercise their free will by using technology to free themselves of the intentionally distracting trash disguised as art that makes up the majority of contemporary popular "culture."
- baoha 11y agoI wonder what FB and Google think about this filtering API. If one day Apple blocks all ads by default, it would be very interesting.
- Shivetya 11y agoI loathe the day where such apps isolate people from thought they do not like on a wholesale business. Can you imagine a world of safe spaces and such where you never have to be challenged? It would be like exporting the current college culture to the world and that if not a true dystopian future, one where the thought police exist through intimidation and threat is still one I don't want.
- aplummer 11y agoI used to have a similar opinion until I read this thing from Banksy on our choice to consume media like the Kardashians: http://adsoftheworld.com/blog/letter_from_banksy_on_advertising http://adsoftheworld.com/blog/letter_from_banksy_on_advertis...
- nathancahill 11y agoInteresting. Update at the end there, "This may no be Banksy's words."
- huehehue 11y agoBlack Mirror has a pretty interesting episode that touches on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
- dexterdog 11y agoBlack Mirror has a number of interesting episodes that touch on all kinds of things.
- powertower 11y ago> It would be like exporting the current college culture to the world and that if not a true dystopian future I was just reading this great overview of college culture - As the students at Ithaca shouted, “how can a campus dedicated to preparing us for the real world not actively foster growth to our consciousness of oppression and privilege?” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/13/mizzou-miserable-heres-fascist-student-protesters-actually-demanding/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/13/mizzou-mi...
- Zarathustra30 11y agoWhat is the false-positive rate like? It would be terrible if it blocked people like Garak and Dukat. Just a note: the "How does K-blocker work?" link just goes back to features, instead of actually telling how it works.
- justanother 11y agoJeer if you must, but here's an iOS app that any of us could have written, yet will make several house payments' worth by week's end.
- jasonkostempski 11y agoIf you're reading sites that report on the Kardashians, you're better off just not going to that site. That's mostly worked for me, until now.
- noobermin 11y agoShould kblocker block itself?
- frozenport 11y agoCan somebody please check?
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- jacquesm 11y agoAnd now I'm reading about them even on HN...
- rdlecler1 11y agoI downloaded the app, so shouldn't it block this post?
- shash7 11y agoI see what you did there!
- jitix 11y ago>Less Kardashian spam makes your battery last longer IMO filtering will use extra processing power which will infact increase battery consumption.
- kevinchen 11y agoUh no, matching a few compiled regexes is very cheap compared to requesting additional images over a cellular connection and and then having the browser lay out the additional text/images.
- jacquesm 11y agoBut those regexes are matched on every request, not just on the ones blocked. Over time that surely adds up.
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- zubi 11y agoWhy would I have to know about that?
- dougb 11y agoI've always wanted Google to provide a BlackHole option on all their products. Every person, organization, subject on my black hole list would never appear in any search results, or News articles... I would BlackHole the Kardashians, Chris Brown and many others.
- ungzd 11y agoWho are Kardashians? Googling gives me result about some obscure photo model. Is she leader of some clickbait company?